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9 Splendid Sardinian Female Characters

Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture arts & artisans    0 Comments 9 Splendid Sardinian Female Characters

They are women who have enriched the era in which they lived, each in their own way, with an unprecedented image of Sardinia’s female figure. Some better known, some less so, are the precious g...

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Edina Altara - Illustrator, Ceramist, Decorator And Painter

Categories Personalities Arts & Artisans     Tags: personalities arts & artisans    0 Comments Edina Altara - Illustrator, Ceramist, Decorator And Painter

Sardinia has been and is full of creative, brilliant and courageous women. We have dedicated a page of the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites blog to some of them. Edina Altara , a beauti...

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Francesca Lai's Hallelujah in Sardinian

Categories Personalities Arts & Artisans     Tags: personalities arts & artisans    0 Comments Francesca Lai's Hallelujah in Sardinian

I was literally conquered by Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah cover that Francesca Lai sings divinely in Sardinian and I wish to share the experience with you, first of all by introducing you Francesc...

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"Sea and Sardinia" By D.H. Lawrence

Categories Personalities Arts & Artisans     Tags: personalities arts & artisans    0 Comments "Sea and Sardinia" By D.H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence was one of the writers of the early twentieth century who deeply loved Sardinia, leaving us a tourist guide from the past, a travel book where you can read customs,  tradi...

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The M.A.S.E. - Museum of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Alghero

Categories Personalities History & Culture Experiences & Activities     Tags: personalities history & culture experiences & activities    0 Comments The M.A.S.E. - Museum of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Alghero

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (Lyon, June 29, 1900 - Riou Island, July 31, 1944) arrived in Alghero on the morning of May 10, 1944, landing at the military airport of Fertilia, a 2000 inhabitant...

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Maria Carta

Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities arts & artisans    0 Comments Maria Carta

Maria Carta, whose voice had warm echoes of the scorching sun and dark echoes of the depths of the caves, sang Sardinia as a woman had never done before. The sounds of an ancient past, the myths, th...

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Sardinian Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture Hiking & Trekking Experiences & Activities     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture hiking & trekking experiences & activities    0 Comments Sardinian Extra Virgin Olive Oil

The Extra Virgin Olive Oil is excellent in Sardinia perhaps because Sardinians knew the fruits of olive and wild olive trees since the Neolithic age and oil and olives have been part of their diet f...

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Sardinian Stories and Legends

Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture Hiking & Trekking Experiences & Activities     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture hiking & trekking experiences & activities    0 Comments Sardinian Stories and Legends

At 194 km and 2 hours and 20 minutes drive from Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites , you may find Samugheo, a small town in Oristano province. It seems a magical place, suitable for being the ...

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Babbay Nou El: was Santa Claus Sardinian?

Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities Entertainment - Nightlife - Music     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities entertainment - nightlife - music    0 Comments Babbay Nou El: was Santa Claus Sardinian?

" Jingle Bells Jingle Bells " ....it's time! The Nativity scene is ready, the resin scent of the Christmas Tree fills the air and Santa Claus is almost here. However, someone wondered why is ...

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Teodoro Levi Archaeologist 

Categories Personalities History & Culture     Tags: personalities history & culture    0 Comments Teodoro Levi Archaeologist 

A personality, the one of Teodoro Levi, known as Doro, who loved Sardinia very much and gave an important contribution to the archaeological research of what he perceived to be one of the most impor...

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