This Italian Island Has a 'Wild Blue' Hiking Trail — With Turquoise Fjords, Homemade Wines, and Mediterranean Vistas

"At the end of the journey I toasted our efforts at Su Gologone, a luxurious boutique hotel set in the lush Supramonte foothills where I joined co-owner Giovanna Palimodde for dinner in the Court of the King—an atmosphere of heavy wooden tables laden with antipasti, weekly banquets honoring local culture, women baking pane carasau in wood-fired ovens, chefs spit-roasting suckling pigs, and a haunting cantu a tenòre quartet whose polyphonic singing evoked the island's shepherding traditions." - Gina DeCaprio Vercesi Gina DeCaprio Vercesi Gina DeCaprio Vercesi is a New York-based writer with a passion for adventure, history, and conservation. Her words and images have appeared in publications including Travel + Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, AARP The Magazine, Delta Sky, Hemispheres, and The Boston Globe. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines