Santa Teresa Gallura, called Lungoni in the local dialect, is a tourist destination of international reknown that faces the Bocche di Bonifacio, a strait that separates it from Corsica. However, it is very well connected to Corsica all-year round. West of town, four km away and linked by an isthmus, there lays the CapoTesta peninsula, 4,000 hectares of a territory partly harmoniously developed, and whose undeveloped area in shape of a rocky headland, from which the name CapoTesta derives, remains completely virgin and enjoyable.

CapoTesta coasts’ morphology is original and peculiar, rich of beaches and creeks bearing romantic, wild, ancient names: Cala Grande, today renamed Valle della Luna (Moon’s Valley), Cala di L’ea, Cala francese, Cala spinosa, la Turraccia, la Funtanaccia, all of which come one after another without a precise pattern. Among the most famous beaches we mention Colomba beach, which receives its name from the first pioneer of turism in the Galluro area. It was in this very place, so close to the beach, where “Casa di Colomba” first opened its doors in the middle of the 20th century.

Aunt Colomba was a dynamic woman who could face with far-sightedness the economic challenges of her time: fishing and tourism. At first she was driven by the need to survive in an hostile atmosphere even if rich in rare beauty. Later, on the top of her personal success and with the help of her only daughter, she tirelessly continued the construction of “Case di Colomba”, while her feet remained deep-rooted to her beloved CapoTesta.