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A World's Heritage: Dry-Stone Walls

Catégories Nature & Landscape History & Culture     Tags: nature & landscape history & culture    0 Commentaires A World's Heritage: Dry-Stone Walls

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...

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A 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 A Journey Into The Local Past: Sa Domo De Marras

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...

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A Sardinian Nobel Prized Author: Grazia Deledda

Catégories Personalities History & Culture     Tags: personalities history & culture    0 Commentaires 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

Catégories Traditions & Folklore Personalities History & Culture Entertainment - Nightlife - Music     Tags: traditions & folklore personalities history & culture entertainment - nightlife - concerts    0 Commentaires 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 remain...

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Sa Paradura: Safety In Numbers

Catégories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture    0 Commentaires Sa Paradura: Safety In Numbers

" 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...

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The Shardana: Warriors Of Sardinia

Catégories Personalities History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: personalities history & culture arts & artisans    0 Commentaires 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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Atlantis, The Center Of The World And...Sardinia!

Catégories History & Culture     Tags: history & culture    0 Commentaires Atlantis, The Center Of The World And...Sardinia!

I love Sardinia. And it’s not only due to the famous imposing Sardinian rocks, and it’s not only due to the Mediterranean scrub nor due to the enchanting emerald-like colour of the sea. I...

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The "Su Coccu"

Catégories Traditions & Folklore History & Culture     Tags: traditions & folklore history & culture    0 Commentaires The "Su Coccu"

The “ Su Coccu ", usually an onyx or obsidian black round stone, but also round turquoise stone or coral is used, set between two little silver cups and mainly is an amulet used to fight evil-e...

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Treasures Of Magic Origin: The "Janas" Of Sardinia

Catégories Nature & Landscape History & Culture     Tags: nature & landscape history & culture    0 Commentaires Treasures Of Magic Origin: The "Janas" Of Sardinia

Sardinia, besides being such a beautiful worth to be visited and experienced, is also magical. Magical is the color of the sea, magical is the bursting of stories silence of the mountains, the magica...

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The Cork

Catégories Nature & Landscape History & Culture Arts & Artisans     Tags: nature & landscape history & culture arts & artisans    0 Commentaires The Cork

On both sides of the road, oak woods follow one another and the nude tree trunks are brick red where they have been already harvested. We are going to  Tempio Pausania , the capital of Gall...

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