The Hotel

“IN A CHARMED ATMOSPHERE…

“In timeless surroundings, in the midst of  uncontaminated sand dunes, against the drop of  a deep blue sea, there appears a large grey stone building covered in golden plaster.” Thus an Italian journalist described her arrival at Hotel Le Dune and her discovery of the sandy valley at Piscinas.
Located on the south-western coast of Sardinia, between Capo Pecora and Capo Frasca, a mere 150 metres from the sea and in front of a beach a few kilometres long, our hotel is within easy reach of Sardinian seaports and airports. Comfortable tarmac roads lead to Ingurtosu, now  quiet and forlorn but once a very active and prosperous old mining centre. The sight is one of great natural beauty and a subtle melancholy spell takes one when walking under the arch of  the splendid, though now abandoned, Manager’s Building (built in 1875).

Leaving Ingurtosu and driving down towards the valley floor, you meet a 7 km-long dirt road in the middle of holm-oak woods and sweet-smelling juniper, with abandoned mining buildings along the way which strike the traveller’s imagination evoking scenes from the past.
The last kilometres show traces of an old railway where the dirt road leaves way to wood sleepers and granite slabs.
Our hotel has been built out of an eighteenth-century mining building where blende and galena minerals were stocked ,transported by railway from Naracauli  washeries at Ingurtosu.

NATIONAL MONUMENT

In 1985 the Ministry for Cultural Assets declared the hotel a national monument for its particular historical interest and artistic value. It consists of three main buildings joined together by a beautiful patio and a little piazza looking on to the sea

In the first building, the one nearer the sea, once a galena storehouse, the restaurant, the meeting hall and the suite have been built.

In the central building, once used as stables for the horses that drew the wagons from the mine, ten double bedrooms with bathrooms were built together with a picturesque patio paved with seventeenth-century terracotta bricks and where Punic and Roman archaeological finds are kept. The owners intend to devote the above-mentioned patio to a permanent exhibition of specimens of  Punic and Roman anchors found in the sea surrounding Sardinia.

The third building, the largest of the three and once a blende warehouse, consists of  a hall built out of a schist tunnel originally used for the transportation of blende. The tunnel, which goes through the entire central part of the building, leads customers to the Reception Office open 24 hours a day, to the American Bar with Lounge, to the TV Room and to the 15 double bedrooms with bathrooms which can be made into three-bed or even four- bed rooms upon request.
The location of the hotel makes it possible for our customers to easily reach the most important archaeological sites and natural parks in Central and Southern Sardinia, driving along some of the most beautiful and panoramic roads in Sardinia.