Santa Maria beach (Santa Maria Island)
Santa Maria island is located furthest from Maddalena town and has probably the longest beach of the entire archipelago. It took us a good hour on a medium size tour boat to get there, so I could only imagine that on a smaller hire boat it would probably take you bit longer. With very little of no traffic, tour boats seemed to be only one’s bringing people here, and by 1 pm, when the boats left beach was left empty. Apparently there is an exclusive villa & restaurant on the island, that offer a very remote and exclusive island experience (www.lacasitta.com), which as all things exclusive involves serious parting with cash.
Santa Maria has a bar-restaurant and a few simple houses that change hands (when they do, which is seldom) at stratospheric prices. One belongs to actor-director Roberto Benigni, the latest Italian film personality to be associated with these islands.
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Archipelago of the La Maddalena