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Obsidian: The Black Gold Of Prehistory
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"Sa pedra crobina" , literally "the rock as black as the crow" is what they call obsidian in Sardinian, a dark and shiny volcanic glass. Its homogeneity and hardness made it one of the raw mate...
mehrThe Zodiac Fountain Of Tinnura
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It's just a two-hours drive to cover the 151 km dividing the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites from Tinnura (OR), located in the centre of Planargia. The Tinnura railway station is lo...
mehrTepilora Regional Park
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Just 73 km away and an 1:15 drive from the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites , there is the Tepilora Regional Park . There are approximately 8000 hectares of limestone p...
mehrSardinian Cuisine In The Middle Ages
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During the Middle Ages millennium everyone indeed passed through Sardinia: from the barbarian dominations to the Saracen incursions, from the Byzantine period to the autonomy of the Judicates, from t...
mehrGrazia Deledda “The Christmas Gift”
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I was looking for an idea to let you participate in Christmas in Sardinia and I recalled Grazia Deledda's story, "The Christmas Gift", a wonderful portrait of Sardinian’s festivit...
mehrBuilding a Nuraghe Today Using Prehistoric Techniques
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Through our blog, we have extensively written that approximately 3700 years ago, in Sardinia, thousands of stone towers were built, up to 30 metres high with walls up to 4 metres thick, of a truncat...
mehrThe Winx Fly To Sardinia
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World of Winx is an Italian animated series, created by Iginio Straffi, which tells the adventures of a group of teenage fairies who face battles and magic to save their Magical Dimension . The...
mehrThe Domus De Janas “La Rocca” In Sedini
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In the north-west of Sardinia, in Anglona, among the hills overlooking the Gulf of Asinara, the small village of Sedini, 95 km and 1 hour and a half by car from the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel &...
mehrTrenino Verde In Sardinia
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David Herbert Lawrence, author of “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, wrote in "Sea and Sardinia" : “ After a long pull, we come to a station after a stretch of loneliness. Each tim...
mehrSisaia, Six Times Grandmother
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We already talked about Supramonte , which is the heart of Sardinia, hard as granite and velvety like the air you breathe, scented with earth, flowers, grass and stone. An extraordinary nature ...
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