Most people who visit Sardinia stick to the famous beaches. You won’t.

Two of this year’s forest stages will take place at Is Arenas and Sorso — two coastal pine forests on opposite ends of the island, both sitting right behind the sea, both the kind of place you’d never find without a reason to go there.

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That’s what these events are for. You get the race, you get the terrain, and you end up somewhere you wouldn’t have ended up otherwise — with a map in your hand instead of a guidebook.

Is Arenas is a forest that grew out of sand dunes. Sorso is a pine and juniper forest along fifteen kilometres of mostly empty coastline in the northwest. Neither is a tourist destination. Both are exactly the kind of place that makes orienteering in Sardinia worth the trip.

This is what PWT Italia events are built around: real Italian locations, off the standard routes, experienced at ground level. Not a holiday with some orienteering added on. Not a race weekend with a beach nearby. Both things, properly, at the same time.

Register before May 31st.

First deadline is in a few days. Fees go up after that.