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Alluai! Fishing With Euphorbia Juice
Catégories Nature & Landscape History & Culture Tags: nature & landscape history & culture 0 Commentaires
In Sardinia grows a variety of euphorbia very common in the countryside. It is a shrub with roundish foliage, which produces yellow flowers from January to April and goes into hibernation in the warm...
Lire la suiteA World's Heritage: Dry-Stone Walls
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Half a century ago, Ferdinando Manno wrote in his " Centuries among the olive trees ": " For generations and generations, the farmers gathered this immense quantity of stones ordering them one by...
Lire la suiteIron Craftmanship Of Sardinia
Catégories Traditions & Folklore Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore arts & artisans 0 Commentaires
Iron craftsmanship in Sardinia, thanks to the island’s rich mineral resources, is art going back thousands of years, as confirmed by the bronze statuettes ( brunzìttu nuragicu ...
Lire la suiteSa Genti Arrubia: Pink Flamingos Of Sardinia
Catégories Sealife & Watersports Nature & Landscape Tags: sealife & watersports nature & landscape 0 Commentaires
In Sardinia, colours are lording it over in all its nuances and those who love Sardinia as I do, know it very well. Let's start with the shades of the Sardinian sea, which are the most magical vision...
Lire la suiteThe Sardinian Art Of Jewellery
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Sardinian jewels are of a very particular beauty indeed. Gold or silver, worked in filigree, bejewelled with stones and coral: jewels are an important part of traditional clothing, they have a histor...
Lire la suiteA Journey Into The Local Past: Sa Domo De Marras
Catégories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture Experiences & Activities Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture experiences & activities 0 Commentaires
An excursion from which I brought back with me a captivating experience was at the ethnographic museum "Sa Domo 'e Sos Marras " , an ancient eighteenth century manor house, located in the histor...
Lire la suiteA Sardinian Nobel Prized Author: Grazia Deledda
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"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...
Lire la suiteSingers Of Sardinia
Catégories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture Entertainment - Nightlife - Music Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture entertainment - nightlife - concerts 0 Commentaires
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 remain...
Lire la suiteSa Paradura: Safety In Numbers
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" The Sa Paradura is a gesture that is existing since the dawn of time. When a shepherd unluckily loses his flock for many reasons, may it be because it has been stolen, or because i...
Lire la suiteThe Shardana: Warriors Of Sardinia
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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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