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“Is Fassonis”, Sardinian’s Lake Boats
Categories Traditions & Folklore Sealife & Watersports Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore sealife & watersports arts & artisans 0 Comments
We know that the ancient Sardinians were sea people. Approx. 120 Nuragic bronze statuettes representing Nuragic ships, are confirming that they had good nautical knowledge. But we have always though...
Read MoreSu Filindeu, The Pasta Of God
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We have already talked about it in the Pasta article, but Su Filindeu deserves to be told in detail, because it is a real Sardinian excellence. Not only is it a Slow Food presidium but it ...
Read More“Sa Crabarissa” The Stone Maiden
Categories Traditions & Folklore Nature & Landscape Hiking & Trekking Tags: traditions & folklore nature & landscape hiking & trekking 0 Comments
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...
Read MoreThe Sistine Chapel Of Barbagia
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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...
Read MoreObsidian: The Black Gold Of Prehistory
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"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
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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...
Read MoreGrazia Deledda “The Christmas Gift”
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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 ...
Read MoreBuilding a Nuraghe Today Using Prehistoric Techniques
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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...
Read MoreThe Domus De Janas “La Rocca” In Sedini
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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 &...
Read MoreThe Tsunami s'Unda Manna
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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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