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A World's Heritage: Dry-Stone Walls

Categories Nature & Landscape History & Culture     Tags: nature & landscape history & culture    0 Comments A World's Heritage: Dry-Stone Walls

Half a century ago, Ferdinando Manno wrote in his " Centuries among the olive trees ": " For generations and generations, the farmers gathered this immense quantity of stones ordering them one by...

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A Journey Into The Local Past: Sa Domo De Marras

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Experiences & Activities     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture experiences & activities    0 Comments A Journey Into The Local Past: Sa Domo De Marras

An excursion from which I brought back with me a captivating experience was at the ethnographic museum "Sa Domo 'e Sos Marras " , an ancient eighteenth-century manor house, located in the histor...

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A Sardinian Nobel Prized Author: Grazia Deledda

Categories Personalities History & Culture     Tags: personalities history & culture    0 Comments A Sardinian Nobel Prized Author: Grazia Deledda

"I'm very small, you know, I'm short even compared to Sardinian women who are very small, but I'm bold and brave like a giant and I'm not afraid of intellectual battles." Thus, Grazia Deledda w...

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Singers Of Sardinia

Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture    0 Comments Singers Of Sardinia

During the superb holidays spent at the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites, Sardinian songs are an experience to take home as it’s comparable to the sun: it lingers on the skin and then remai...

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Sa Paradura: Safety In Numbers

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture    0 Comments Sa Paradura: Safety In Numbers

" The Sa Paradura is a gesture that is existing since the dawn of time. When a shepherd unluckily loses his flock for many reasons, may it be because it has been stolen, or because it has bee...

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The Shardana: Warriors Of Sardinia

Categories Personalities History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: personalities history & culture arts & artisans    0 Comments The Shardana: Warriors Of Sardinia

A Nuragic civilization was born and developed in Sardinia, confined in a period dating from the Bronze Age (1800 BC) to the 2nd century BC, already being Roman Age.  The Shardana , populati...

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Atlantis, The Center Of The World And ... Sardinia!

Categories History & Culture     Tags: history & culture    0 Comments Atlantis, The Center Of The World And ... Sardinia!

I love Sardinia. And it’s not only due to the famous imposing Sardinian rocks, and it’s not only due to the Mediterranean scrub nor due to the enchanting emerald-like colour of the sea. ...

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The "Su Coccu"

Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture    0 Comments The "Su Coccu"

The “ Su Coccu ",  is an amulet used to fight evil-eye, usually made of an onyx or obsidian black round stone, but also round turquoise stone or  coral are used, set between two li...

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Treasures Of Magic Origin: The "Janas" Of Sardinia

Categories Nature & Landscape History & Culture     Tags: nature & landscape history & culture    0 Comments Treasures Of Magic Origin: The "Janas" Of Sardinia

Sardinia, besides being such a beautiful worth to be visited and experienced, is also magical. Magical is the color of the sea, magical is the bursting of stories silence of the mountains, the magic...

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The Cork

Categories Nature & Landscape History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: nature & landscape history & culture arts & artisans    0 Comments The Cork

On both sides of the road, oak woods follow one another and the nude tree trunks are brick red where they have been already harvested. We are going to Tempio Pausania , the capital of Gallur...

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