A summer dream called Lispedda

A Greek myth tells about Perseus, in order to reach and defeat Medusa, the monster with the inexorable petrifying gaze, got oneself three things: a magical bag for storing the severed head, the cap of Hades invisibility and the Hermes’winged sandals. It is not a coincidence that Pegasus, the winged horse that Perseus rides towards immortality and freedom, will be born from the blood of the hard stone Gorgon.

Then, for a strange catharsis, from the stone, from its hardness, it was born the exact opposite: the lightness. Italo Calvino had caught it and he opened his essay "American Lessons" with its stones, the myth and the lightness. There are many stones, colored in red, white, pink and even black in Lispedda.

Behind a cobalt blue sea with small red rocks that rise from the shallow water, the silhouette of a mountain full of Mediterranean vegetation such as shrubs, strawberry trees, mastic trees, glades of myrtle and herbs, that the wind often shakes, freeing the air perfumes and conditioners lost times.
 

The jewel of Ogliastra coast is next to two other beads: Cala Luas (Euphorbias Cove) and Su Sirboni (Boar Cove).
 

The first one is over Lispedda, near Coccorocci, a pebble beach and backdrops that reminds the volcanic origin of the land, full of trails, breathtaking coves and many stone tables sheltered by centuries-old juniper trees on which to improvise picnics with family, friends or sweethearts.

The second one, Cala su Sirboni, more difficult to reach by land, because it needs a ten minutes walk on a  narrow path, but it is worth it: it has a white beach and the sea in the colors from emerald green to light blue, depending on the time and wind.

The tourist services that you can find in these beaches are many: there are a kiosk, a small restaurant, a camping, but this simplicity is loved by those who go there for years and are afraid to reveal the secret: the lightness of air and earth . That lightness in the evening, after returning from the sea, after a day of sun and swimming, steals your heart and your mind and makes you feel part of mother nature, no more man or woman, but just child.