Castiadas is a municipality of about 1,500 inhabitants, 60 km from Cagliari.  The town boasts a green natural territory, healthy air, an unspoilt environment, and its 20 km of coastline with enchanting beaches such as Cala Pira, Monte Turno and Sant’Elmo, Cala Sinzias, Cala Marina, Villa Rey and Santa Giusta.

In addition to kilometres of enchanting coastline, Castiadas has an environmental heritage where the existing vegetation has remained intact for millennia. The abundant wildlife has found its ideal habitat here: deer and wild boar, golden eagles, buzzards, imperial crows, wild cats, martens, foxes, pigeons, red woodpeckers and numerous other animals.

From the highest point at Minni Minni, which can be reached by guided tours, mountain bike and on foot, it is possible to admire the entire Castiadas area and a good part of the Villasimius coastline.

The first traces of today’s settlement date back to the 14th century, when the village of Villanova Castiadas was founded, abandoned in the following century due to the frequent plagues and cases of malaria recorded at the time. After more than three centuries of complete abandonment, the area was reclaimed in the 19th century in order to erect a penal agricultural colony, later closed in the 1950s and reconverted into a museum a few years ago.

The economy of the municipality, for decades based on agriculture and pastoralism, is now largely based on tourism, thanks to the various settlements along the coast.