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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 CommentsToday 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...
Read MoreSu Trimpanu, A Sardinian Musical Instrument
Categories Traditions & Folklore Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore arts & artisans 0 CommentsThe 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...
Read MoreMocha Dick by Emmanuel Chapalain in Porto Rotondo
Categories Experiences & Activities Arts & Artisans Tags: experiences & activities arts & artisans 0 CommentsAlong 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...
Read MoreSa Resolza, The Folding Knife
Categories Arts & Artisans Tags: arts & artisans 0 CommentsI 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...
Read MoreMelchiorre Murenu Poet Of Poetry In Bolu
Categories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture arts & artisans 0 CommentsBolu 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...
Read MoreThe Last Sardinian Orbàce Fulling Mill
Categories Traditions & Folklore Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore arts & artisans 0 CommentsIn 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...
Read More“Is Fassonis”, Sardinian’s Lake Boats
Categories Traditions & Folklore Sealife & Watersports Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore sealife & watersports arts & artisans 0 CommentsWe 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
Categories Traditions & Folklore Food Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore food arts & artisans 0 CommentsWe 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 MoreGin Made In Sardinia
Categories Nature & Landscape Food Arts & Artisans Tags: nature & landscape food arts & artisans 0 CommentsI 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
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