Turismo, dimore rurali e paesaggio geomorfologico della Sardegna: le regioni degli stazzi e delle corti campidanesi a confronto

Sardinia is mainly known for its high tourist vocation, particularly, in its coastal sector. The success of its consolidated tourist call lies firstly in the peculiarity and spectacularity of its coastal landscape.
Nevertheless, the inland areas and landscapes, even if extremely interesting from a scientific point of view and sometimes even more spectacular, cannot yet be considered as a real tourist call and cannot compete to the main tourist flux, traditionally located along the coast.
The aim of a tourist fruition of the region alternative to the traditional one and the research of a cultural enrichment, stimulated the tourist offer also of the inland and rural landscapes of the island.
Some examples of this trend are carried out in some Sardinian areas like Gallura (north-eastern Sardinia) and Campidano (south-western Sardinia): here projects of improvement of rural and inland landscapes are proposed, mainly through the offer and improvement of the rich cultural and architectonic heritage, highly represented by the traditional rural homes, like the stazzi and corti, brought back to their original beauty.
With this work we want to describe the great richness of these two areas, both from a geographical and geomorphological point of view and from the historical characters of the rural culture and settlement. The great geographical and cultural heritage of inland areas can be an important chance in tourist fruition and for new planning and management strategies directly involving local communities.