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“Sa Crabarissa” The Stone Maiden

Categories Traditions & Folklore Nature & Landscape Hiking & Trekking     Tags: traditions & folklore nature & landscape hiking & trekking    0 Comments “Sa Crabarissa” The Stone Maiden

Today we will take a long walk in the centre of Sardinia, in an area rich in woods and dense Mediterranean scrub where laurel, strawberry tree, myrtle, rosemary and mastic tree grow tangled among th...

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The Sistine Chapel Of Barbagia

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture arts & artisans    0 Comments The Sistine Chapel Of Barbagia

Barbagia is Sardinia’s core, occupying the Gennargentu mountain massif slopes. The name Barbagia was given by the Romans who, due to the strong Sardinian resistance, were unable to pen...

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Obsidian: The Black Gold Of Prehistory

Categories Traditions & Folklore Nature & Landscape History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore nature & landscape history & culture arts & artisans    0 Comments Obsidian: The Black Gold Of Prehistory

"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...

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Sardinian Cuisine In The Middle Ages

Categories Traditions & Folklore Food     Tags: traditions & folklore food    0 Comments Sardinian Cuisine In The Middle Ages

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...

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Grazia Deledda “The Christmas Gift”

Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities    0 Comments Grazia Deledda “The Christmas Gift”

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 festivity at the ...

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Building a Nuraghe Today Using Prehistoric Techniques

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture arts & artisans    0 Comments Building a Nuraghe Today Using Prehistoric Techniques

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...

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The Domus De Janas “La Rocca” In Sedini

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture    0 Comments The Domus De Janas “La Rocca” In Sedini

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 &...

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The Tsunami s'Unda Manna

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture    0 Comments The Tsunami s'Unda Manna

Italian National Geographic on June 26, 2023 published an article on a tsunami of 3,600 years ago which was the cause of one of the greatest disasters of humanity. It was caused by the volcanic erupt...

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Was Ötzi The Iceman Sardinian?

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture    0 Comments Was Ötzi The Iceman Sardinian?

In 1991 some German tourists accidentally found a 5,300-year-old mummy in excellent condition at an altitude of 3,210 metres at the foot of the Similaun glacier, in Val Senales, in Trentino Alto Adi...

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Stella Maris Church in Porto Cervo

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore nature & landscape arts & artisans    0 Comments Stella Maris Church in Porto Cervo

Stella Maris church stands all white on a small hill overlooking Porto Cervo’s gulf. It is a synthesis of the Mediterranean style, with round soft shapes. It does not belong to the tradition...

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