Alghero Walking Tour & Local Wine Tasting in Old Town

Alghero Historic Centre Tour and Wine Tasting

Walk the ancient walls of a Catalan city by the sea, then raise a glass to Sardinian tradition.

This Alghero historic centre walking tour with wine tasting combines nearly a thousand years of layered Mediterranean history with the sensory pleasure of local Sardinian wines and artisan food products. The route covers approximately 3 kilometres through one of the island's best-preserved old towns. It is rated easy and suits a wide range of travellers.

Alghero occupies a rare position in Italian heritage: colonised by Catalan settlers in the fourteenth century, the city still carries the cadence of that occupation in its dialect, its architecture, and its street names. Your guide will lead you from Porta Terra through a sequence of Aragonese towers and defensive walls that once formed one of the most formidable fortifications on the western Mediterranean coast.

Along the way you will pass through historic squares, enter the orbit of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, and hear the layered narratives that explain how this small coastal city became known as the "little Barcelona of Sardinia." The guided portion of the walk concludes at a local winery where a structured tasting session pairs four wines with typical Sardinian products.