04/11/2026
The doors are closed. The garden isn't.
La Villa del Re closed for the season on 18th October. The wild gardens stay: more than 5,000 square metres of Mediterranean garden in the Sarrabus, on Sardinia's southeast coast.
In summer, it is the path from your room to the sea, with the wind carrying myrtle and rosemary. Both are evergreen, like the juniper. They don't wait for the season to begin.
Inland, in the forests of Castiadas, the strawberry tree is doing something rare: between September and December it carries flowers and ripe fruit at the same time.
The Season You Don't See, chapter one.
It is all still here. Just quieter.