Su Bisu, Sardinian for “the dream.”
Su Bisu is more than a name. It is a family dream shaped over decades, rooted in a love of Sardinia, and brought to life as a quiet hilltop place among olive trees, open land, and wide views to the sea.
Tony first came to Sardinia in 1968, during a transfer as a road police officer. He was 21, posted to the island and immediately taken by it. He bought a small piece of land, imagining he might one day return and build something of his own. Life moved on, he was transferred again, and the land was eventually sold. But Sardinia didn't leave him.
In 1986, the family returned to visit the island and to find old friends. It had been nearly twenty years. The island caught them all, immediately and completely. For Carmen, it sparked something she had been longing for some time. The dream of a house on a hilltop, with the sea always in view, was now possible. A place where the family could gather, spread out across the land, and come back to year after year. They left, but the idea stayed.
They returned in 2003 with the intention of finding that place. They drove the hills, walked the land, looked at properties. They looked, and looked, and never quite found the right thing.
In 2010, they found this land above Murta Maria. The hill, the light, the view to the sea. It was the right thing.
Su Bisu was created as a place the whole family could return to, gather in, and care for over time. It was never meant to be a business first. It was meant to be somewhere rooted in the hill, the light, and the view to the sea. Tony and Carmen care for it still, with the same values that shaped it from the beginning: warmth, privacy, simplicity, and respect for the place.
We never wanted guests living wall to wall, balcony to balcony. So each stay has its own garden, its own outdoor space, its own quiet. Room to read, eat outside, look out to sea, and be properly away.
The days here have their own rhythm. Cicadas through the day, not just at dusk. Church bells in the distance. Wind in the trees. After rain, the air carries myrtle, cistus, lavender and warm earth. It's hard to describe until you've smelled it.
The land matters to us too. Around 250 olive trees grow here, planted by Tony and Carmen, tended without pesticides. They connect the landscape to our Tuscan roots and define the character of the place as much as anything we built. Even small things carry the same thinking. When we barbecue, we use local ginestra wood. It's a simple detail, but it belongs here. Not staged. Just lived.
Peaceful and private, yet well placed for beaches, restaurants, Olbia airport, Porto San Paolo, San Teodoro, Golfo Aranci and Tavolara - all within easy reach by car.
