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11 Interesting Facts About Sardinia That You Might Not Know Tags: nature & landscape, personalities, arts & artisans, traditions & folklore, history & culture, experiences & activities, golfo aranci 0 Comments

Perhaps something more than just " curious facts " but rather precious peculiarities of this wonderful Island that would complete your " Sardinia Experience " with news and facts belonging exclu...

On The Tracks Of The Sardinian Templars Tags: personalities, history & culture, experiences & activities, 0 Comments

The " Pauperes Commilitones Christi Templique Salomonis ", (The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon) also known as Knights Templars , were among the first chivalric reli...

7 Tours You Cannot Forget Tags: nature & landscape, personalities, hiking & trekking, experiences & activities, 0 Comments

There are places that endure deep in the heart. During the first years when full of curiosity, I explored the north of Sardinia during my holidays, I selected 7 tours that have contributed to fuellin...

Caprera: Garibaldi's Sardinian Island Tags: personalities, history & culture, experiences & activities, 0 Comments

Caprera can be reached from the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites in an hour and a half by car and ferry. The jagged coast of the island divides Caprera into two sides. The eastern one is steep ...

Karim Aga Khan & The Emerald Coast Tags: personalities, costa smeralda, 0 Comments

Once upon a time, 60 years ago, there was a Prince who bought, "sight-unseen", almost seventy hectares in Romazzino, a coastal stretch of Gallura in the northeast of Sardinia, called Monti di Mola, ...

Pinuccio Sciola: Sardinian Sculptor & Muralist Tags: personalities, arts & artisans, golfo aranci, 0 Comments

Golfo Aranci ’s promenade is embellished with two "Sails" carved in stone plus a group of three soundtracks by Pinuccio Sciola (15th March 1942 – 13th May 2016), the only sculptor wh...

Marianne Sin Pfältzer: Open-Air Gallery In Golfo Aranci Tags: personalities, history & culture, golfo aranci, 0 Comments

In the old part of Golfo Aranci village, hanging from the oldest houses, a series of mainly black and white photos tells the story of the last century's fishermen's community emigrated from Ponza, V...

Was Christophers Columbus Sardinian? Tags: personalities, history & culture, 0 Comments

I remember that Sister Anna Concetta, my elementary school teacher, always reminded us on October 12th of the discovery of America by Ligurian Christopher Columbus who, with his famous three caravel...

Mother Of The Murdered: The Sardinian Piety Tags: personalities, history & culture, 0 Comments

I n an extensive area of central-eastern Sardinia, rich in splendid mountains with steep walls, deep ravines, caves and caverns, where archaeological research is bringing to light the remains of the ...

Annarita Serra: Turning Trash Plastic Into Art Tags: personalities, sealife & watersports, 0 Comments

"I had two dreams in my life: working with art and saving the sea. I have discovered over the years that one helps me to fulfil the other, that art helps me to save the sea. I know that I am doing i...