Its name might evoke the image of a gloomy bay, perpetually shrouded in a mournful mist drifting over a beach littered with bones and skeletons, eerily embedded in ash-colored sand and washed by waters as dark as hell itself.
In reality, though, it’s quite the opposite.
The bay in question is nothing short of enchanting: the atmosphere isn’t unsettling or depressing at all, but rather gentle and vibrant. The beach doesn’t resemble a cemetery, and the sea — in a place like Asinara — could hardly be sinister or menacing. Instead, it appears crystal-clear and sky-blue, so blue it seems almost heavenly.
And the bones? Those do exist, by the thousands in fact! But they’re all kept safely in the Austro-Hungarian Sanctuary on the hill behind the beach, which is where the cove gets its name.
