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Domus de Janas of Malghesi: a fairy house Tags: nature & landscape, traditions & folklore, history & culture 0 Comments

An hour's drive from the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites , we arrive at an enchanted place near Oschiri town: " Oh my, this is the Hobbits land! " I tell myself. And I recall the stor...

Pinna Nobilis or Noble Pen Shell Tags: nature & landscape, sealife & watersports, 0 Comments

The Pinna Nobilis , commonly known as Noble Pen Shell or Fan Mussel , is one of the largest bivalve molluscs living in muddy bottoms, with the toe of the shell firmly planted in the sand thr...

Sardinia: not only sun, salt and sea Tags: nature & landscape, history & culture, experiences & activities, 0 Comments

While reading and studying Sardinia with immense wonder, I persist in discovering its countless cultural treasures. And the more I learn, the more I realize I still know very little ... and its appe...

Dolmen, Menhir and Cromlech Tags: nature & landscape, history & culture, 0 Comments

A few years ago in England, 13 km far from Salisbury, I was fascinated observing Stonehenge , supposed to represent an "ancient astronomical observatory" consisting of megaliths. Stonehenge is undo...

Tiscali's Nuragic Village Tags: nature & landscape, hiking & trekking, experiences & activities, 0 Comments

Tiscali, the well-known Sardinian telecommunication company, founded in 1998 by Renato Soru, is well known to most of Italians, but perhaps not everyone knows that the company owes its name to ...

Sa Pompìa: the unique citrus of Sardinia Tags: nature & landscape, food, 0 Comments

In mid-November the Competition for 2019 Best Panettone in the World took place in Rome, meaning that the panettone is now belonging not only to Milan's history and tradi...

The Arbustus Tags: nature & landscape, traditions & folklore, history & culture, food, 0 Comments

While most of us know that the Arbutus is an evergreen sapling, typical of the Mediterranean scrub in Sardinia, perhaps not everyone knows that during the Italian Risorgimento it was one o...

The precious wines of Sardinia Tags: nature & landscape, history & culture, food, experiences & activities, 0 Comments

The history of wine in Sardinia has very ancient origins. Iron Age’s Nuragic who lived on the island between 900 and 750 a. C. was the first red wine producers in the Mediterranean. This...

Su Zinzulu: the jujube Tags: nature & landscape, food, 0 Comments

The vegetation in Sardinia is mainly formed by the Mediterranean scrub which includes holm oak, cork, phillyrea, arbutus and some species of juniper (high scrub), and the lentisk, the heather, the s...

The Maddalena Archipelago Tags: nature & landscape, experiences & activities, sealife & watersports, 0 Comments

The islands forming the Maddalena Archipelago - 62 counting islands and islets - were baptized by the Romans Cuniculariae Insulae , "middle islands", for their position between Sardinia and Cor...