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Mickey Mouse And The Mystery Of The Giants

Categories Personalities History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: personalities history & culture arts & artisans    0 Comments Mickey Mouse And The Mystery Of The Giants

Today we want to dedicate, in a special edition, a blog on the latest release of Mickey Mouse’s comic, number 3585 on newsstands this week, which has dedicated about fifty pages to our wonderf...

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Su Trimpanu, A Sardinian Musical Instrument

Categories Traditions & Folklore Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore arts & artisans    0 Comments Su Trimpanu, A Sardinian Musical Instrument

The musical instrument Su Trimpanu , a friction membranophone , belongs to the ancient Sardinian tradition. Born in an agro-pastoral environment, probably as a hollo for men and animals to hel...

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Mocha Dick by Emmanuel Chapalain in Porto Rotondo

Categories Experiences & Activities Arts & Artisans     Tags: experiences & activities arts & artisans    0 Comments Mocha Dick by Emmanuel Chapalain in Porto Rotondo

Along the Via del Molo, in Porto Rotondo , you can admire, stepping on it, images of sharks, tuna fish, swordfish and other varieties of fish swimming in the waves. The eyes of some specimens l...

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Sa Resolza, The Folding Knife

Categories Arts & Artisans     Tags: arts & artisans    0 Comments Sa Resolza, The Folding Knife

I have already written about the characteristic Sardinian switchblade, in the  Iron Craftmanship of Sardinia article. Today, however, I would like to learn more about this “ ob...

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Melchiorre Murenu Poet Of Poetry In Bolu

Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture arts & artisans    0 Comments Melchiorre Murenu Poet Of Poetry In Bolu

Bolu Poetry (sung lyrics) is a Sardinian art form that has nowadays almost completely disappeared. By extemporaneous poetry, or off the cuff, is meant the poetic genre, often in sung form, which i...

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The Last Sardinian Orbàce Fulling Mill

Categories Traditions & Folklore Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore arts & artisans    0 Comments The Last Sardinian Orbàce Fulling Mill

In our Sardinian stories we have encountered the orbàce , a typical fabric of Sardinia (but also used in Sicily), a fabric that is obtained through a characteristic process that dates back...

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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 “Is Fassonis”, Sardinian’s Lake Boats

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...

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Su Filindeu, The Pasta Of God

Categories Traditions & Folklore Food Arts & Artisans     Tags: traditions & folklore food arts & artisans    0 Comments Su Filindeu, The Pasta Of God

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 ...

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Gin Made In Sardinia

Categories Nature & Landscape Food Arts & Artisans     Tags: nature & landscape food arts & artisans    0 Comments Gin Made In Sardinia

I love Sardinia, a love that I wish to communicate in this blog, especially when I try to convey its hidden beauties mainly in the hinterland, given that the wonders of its sea are already known to m...

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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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