Capo Caccia


The impressive promontory of Capo Caccia lies just a few kilometres from Alghero.
This towering, limestone headland, with its sheer cliffs, drops vertically down to the sea hundreds of metres below.

Capo Caccia gets its name from the hunters who, up until recently, constituted the biggest threat to the numerous species of bird life the promontory supported.

Despite man's destructive presence on Capo Caccia, the area is still home to the griffin, a species of vulture whose wingspan can reach an impressive 3m.

Today the zone is a protected oasis and this policy of nature conservation has resulted in the re-population of the promontory by species which had virtually been wiped out, such as the Sardinian partridge, the 'Bonelli' eagle, the peregrine falcon, the herring gull and the Corsican gull, as well as varieties of shearwater birds and cormorants.

Capo Caccia is above all noted for its caves, and, in particular, the Grotta di Nettuno.