Editing La Caletta

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'''La Caletta''' is a small town, a [[harbour]] and a [[List of tourist attractions in Sardinia|tourist destination]] in [[Sardinia]], [[Italy]]. Caletta means a small bay or little harbour.<ref name="Denham1969">{{cite book|author=H. M. Denham|title=The Tyrrhenian Sea: A Sea-guide to Its Coasts and Islands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjsJAQAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Murray|isbn=978-0-7195-1882-9}}</ref>

[[File:Siniscola - La Caletta (02).JPG|thumb|The beach and hillside villas]]

The town is located approximately 50&nbsp;km south of [[Olbia]], in the administrative territory of [[Siniscola]] (province of [[Nugoro|Nuoro]]), on the [[Tyrrhenian Sea|Tyrrhenian coast]] of the island.

An ancient village of fishermen, its small gulf has been transformed in the 1970s into a touristic harbour, and recently renewed and enlarged. The town (est. 1,000 inhabitants, that become more than 10,000 in Summer) is today deeply dependent on [[tourism]] and borders, at its northern side, with [[San Giovanni di Posada|San Giovanni]], the coastal fraction of [[Posada, Sardinia|Posada]].

La Caletta is in front of a well known beach (appr. 10&nbsp;km of pure white sand) that ends at the small town of Santa Lucia.
Local population requires that La Caletta can have in its port a ferry line for ''the Continent'' (Italian mainland), and some experiments were practiced a few years ago, that confirmed the potential success of such an eventual initiative, but (also due to the particular administrative competence of an external organ and being part of the port under the authority of the bordering territory of Posada) administrative problems and local rivalries actually stop any further evolution in this sense.

[[Image:Spiaggia La Caletta.JPG|thumb|The beach of La Caletta]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.regione.sardegna.it/ Official regional website in Italian]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050101031542/http://www.regione.sardegna.it/inglese/index.htm Official regional website in English]
* [http://www.goingtosardinia.com/ Sardinia Guide]
* [http://www.sardinianconnections.com/ Tourist information for Sardinia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060702161716/http://www.sardinianconnections.com/ |date=2006-07-02 }}
* [http://www.lacalettakite.com/ Kite School on Site (Official Member of Olympic Committee)]

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[[Category:Cities and towns in Sardinia]]