Rock Climbing and Sports Climbing around Sassari and Alghero in northern Sardinia

The limestone crags around Sassari and Alghero offer mainly single pitch sports routes across a wide range of grades. There are some multi-pitch sports routes at the Sperone overt and La Cengia crags near Alghero, with routes up to 140m long on excellent sea cliffs of Capo Caccia.
The information shown below on the map has been extracted from the guidebook "Arrampicare ad Alghero, Sassari e dintorni", which can be bought from our shop.

Map of the rock climbing and sports climbing areas around Alghero and Sassari in northern Sardinia

Rock Climbing around Alghero and Sassari
No	Crag	No of Routes	Grade Range
1	Cala Inferno	10	5b to 6b+
2	Casarotto	61	5b to 8a
3	Sperone ovest	29	4b to 7c
4	La Cengia	25	4b to 6b+
5	Placche di Payer	34	5a to 7a
6	Rocca Bagassa	14	3 to 8-
7	La rocca della Regina	50	5a to 7c+
8	Usini	9	5a to 7a
9	Placche del leccio (Ossi)	39	5a to 7b+
10	Giorre e Pedras Serradas	13	4 to 7+
11	Chighizzu	42	5c to 7a+
12	Pianeta delle scimmie	20	6a to 7a+
13	Superpippo	20	5a to 7a+
14	Osilo	55	4c to 7a
15	Dimensione verticale	57	4a to 7b+
16	La muraglia	50	5a to 7b
17	Il castello	20	5c to 7a
18	Il trenino	26	5b to 7b
19	Discount di S. Vittoria	16	5b to 6b
20	Dinosauri	6	5c to 6b+

Map of the rock climbing and bouldering areas around Olbia

Rock Climbing around Olbia
No	Crag	Type of Climbing	Type of Rock	Grade Range
1	Cala Spinosa	Sport	Granite	4c to 7b+
2	San Teodoro	Bouldering	Granite	fb-3c to fb-7b
3	Siniscola	Sport	Limestone	5b to 8a+
4	Posada	Sport	Limestone	3b to 7b+
5	Preda istampada	Sport	Limestone	5b to 7b

The main rock climbing to be found around Olbia is single pitch sports routes on limestone rock, with the main crag being Siniscola, which has a good range of grades. Further north the rock turns to granite, where there is some bouldering at San Teodoro. At Capo Testa there is a mixture of sports routes and bouldering on beautifully naturally carved white-grey granite rock.

To the east of Olbia, most of the climbing areas are not bolted and therefore have an "alpine" feel to them - according to Sardinian rock climbers!

The 5th Edition of the Pietra di Luna rock climbing guidebook (published in October 2011) details all of the single pitch sport routes in the Olbia and Sassari regions of Sardinia. Buy this guidebook from our shop.