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The Sistine Chapel Of Barbagia
Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture arts & artisans 0 CommentsBarbagia 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...
Read MoreObsidian: 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"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...
Read MoreSardinian Cuisine In The Middle Ages
Categories Traditions & Folklore Food Tags: traditions & folklore food 0 CommentsDuring 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...
Read MoreGrazia Deledda “The Christmas Gift”
Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities Tags: traditions & folklore personalities 0 CommentsI 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 ...
Read MoreBuilding a Nuraghe Today Using Prehistoric Techniques
Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture arts & artisans 0 CommentsThrough 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...
Read MoreThe Domus De Janas “La Rocca” In Sedini
Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture 0 CommentsIn 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 &...
Read MoreThe Tsunami s'Unda Manna
Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture 0 CommentsItalian 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...
Read MoreWas Ötzi The Iceman Sardinian?
Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture 0 CommentsIn 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...
Read MoreStella Maris Church in Porto Cervo
Categories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore nature & landscape arts & artisans 0 CommentsStella 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...
Read More9 Splendid Sardinian Female Characters
Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture arts & artisans 0 CommentsThey 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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