Poggio dei Pini

Poggio dei Pini, literally “Pine Knoll” is a locality situated in south-west Sardinia, about 15 km from Cagliari, the island's capital.

It is not an ancient settlement; rather it was founded in the 1960s and 1970s when a group of people who loved nature and the countryside decided to make it their home.

The countryside, already attractive, was enhanced by planting a luxuriant pine wood around a small lake.

Two eighteenth-century edifices stand out in this area: the churches of Santa Barbara and of San Girolamo (Saint Jerome).

Poggio dei Pini is notable as the former home of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari.