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Most travelers treat Olbia as a transit point, a place to land before heading north to Porto Cervo or south toward the Gennargentu. That instinct misses something important. The city and its immediate hinterland offer a layered experience that the Costa Smeralda, for all its glamour, cannot replicate: a functioning Sardinian town with Phoenician and Roman foundations, a working port, a market culture, and a granite landscape that predates every luxury resort in the region by several millennia.