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Pinuccio Sciola: Sardinian Sculptor & Muralist

Categories Personalities Golfo Aranci Arts & Artisans     Tags: personalities golfo aranci arts & artisans    0 Comments Pinuccio Sciola: Sardinian Sculptor & Muralist

Golfo Aranci ’s promenade is embellished with two "Sails" carved in stone plus a group of three soundtracks by Pinuccio Sciola (15th March 1942 – 13th May 2016), the only sculptor wh...

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Marianne Sin Pfältzer: Open-Air Gallery In Golfo Aranci

Categories Personalities History & Culture Golfo Aranci     Tags: personalities history & culture golfo aranci    0 Comments Marianne Sin Pfältzer: Open-Air Gallery In Golfo Aranci

In the old part of Golfo Aranci village, hanging from the oldest houses, a series of mainly black and white photos tells the story of the last century's fishermen's community emigrated from Ponza, V...

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Was Christophers Columbus Sardinian?

Categories Personalities History & Culture     Tags: personalities history & culture    0 Comments Was Christophers Columbus Sardinian?

I remember that Sister Anna Concetta, my elementary school teacher, always reminded us on October 12th of the discovery of America by Ligurian Christopher Columbus who, with his famous three caravel...

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Mother Of The Murdered: The Sardinian Piety

Categories Personalities History & Culture     Tags: personalities history & culture    0 Comments Mother Of The Murdered: The Sardinian Piety

I n an extensive area of central-eastern Sardinia, rich in splendid mountains with steep walls, deep ravines, caves and caverns, where archaeological research is bringing to light the remains of the ...

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Annarita Serra: Turning Trash Plastic Into Art

Categories Sealife & Watersports Personalities     Tags: sealife & watersports personalities    0 Comments Annarita Serra: Turning Trash Plastic Into Art

"I had two dreams in my life: working with art and saving the sea. I have discovered over the years that one helps me to fulfil the other, that art helps me to save the sea. I know that I am doing i...

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Supramonte of Sardinia

Categories Personalities Nature & Landscape History & Culture Hiking & Trekking     Tags: personalities nature & landscape history & culture hiking & trekking    0 Comments Supramonte of Sardinia

The complex of Supramonte, Sardinia’s core of Barbagia County, is about 130 km far and two hours drive from the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites .  Approaching by car, with the colou...

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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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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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Maria Lai & The Art Of Threads

Categories Personalities Arts & Artisans     Tags: personalities arts & artisans    0 Comments Maria Lai & The Art Of Threads

Stretched or tangled, sewn, resewn and unstitched, loose or knotted, the threads are the artistic language of a small Sardinian woman: Maria Lai . Maria Lai wanted to stitch the world with...

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