Luxury Car Rental in Pula

Two thousand years before the resorts arrived, Pula was already a prestigious address: on the headland of Nora the Phoenicians founded a trading port, and the Romans added baths, mosaics and a theatre overlooking the water. The town still carries that double identity today: a genuine centre with an evening passeggiata between Piazza del Popolo and the café-lined streets, and a residential coastline where the Santa Margherita pine forest conceals villas and some of the island's most discreet resorts, with the Is Molas golf courses fifteen minutes inland.

Here, elegance doesn't parade — it resides. No yacht-club catwalks; instead, discreet gates among the pines, long dinners, mornings paced by golf, sea and Roman ruins. In Pula, a distinguished car exists to stitch the distances together with style — the resort, the excavations, the coves, the corners heading west — which is why so many guests choose a grand tourer for southern Sardinia: composed on the transfers, thrilling when the road turns beautiful.

Cagliari Elmas to Pula is 32 km, around 40 minutes: you join the SS195 Sulcitana, skirt the Santa Gilla lagoon and run straight down south. You can take delivery at arrivals, with an LSM representative waiting for you, or have the car brought to your destination: your resort in the Santa Margherita pine forest, your villa, your hotel. The handover takes only a few minutes — document check, a walk-around of the car together, keys in hand — and requirements and conditions are provided at the quotation stage.

Pula is one of the 27 destinations we serve across Sardinia, with 3 airports covered: if your itinerary moves on, we can arrange drop-off at a different point — in Cagliari before you board, for instance, or in Chia if the holiday drifts further west. Message our WhatsApp concierge with your dates, address and the kind of car you have in mind: we'll build the proposal around your stay. Check availability.

Sunset belongs to Nora. Arrive an hour before dusk, park at the foot of the Torre del Coltellazzo and walk among columns, baths and mosaics as the light sinks towards the sea: the Roman theatre, still a stage for summer festivals today, has been gazing at the water for two thousand years. Right beside the excavations, the Nora Lagoon is a world of its own — still mirrors of water, motionless herons, canoe excursions setting out from the old tuna fishery.

Mornings, by contrast, belong to the coast: the beach at Santa Margherita di Pula isn't a single sweep of sand but a necklace of coves separated by low rocks and maritime pines, many reachable only via sandy paths branching off the SS195 — and the pleasure lies in choosing your own. When the urge to drive takes over, point west: in twenty minutes the Sulcitana brings you to Chia, and from there the SP71 towards Teulada unrolls one of the most photographed sequences of seaside corners on the island. Out at first light, back for aperitivo: your co-driver will thank you at every viewpoint.

If your base is a Santa Margherita resort, the most natural choice is a stately SUV: a Bentley Bentayga absorbs the pine-shaded avenues and the airport transfers with the same sumptuous calm, and swallows golf bags and a whole family's luggage without breaking composure. For couples, the Ferrari Roma is the perfect distillation of Pula's spirit: an elegant grand tourer that never needs to raise its voice, as much at ease outside the ruins of Nora as on the hairpins of the SP71.

The third way is the most cinematic: a Maserati GranCabrio Trofeo, roof down for the evening run to Nora, when the air smells of pine resin and the engine murmurs along with the sunset. If you're travelling with children, equipment and plans that change daily, our guide to luxury SUVs in Sardinia will help you find the model with the right balance of space and presence.