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7 Sardinian Handicraft Products You Should Know
Catégories Traditions & Folklore Nature & Landscape Experiences & Activities Arts & Artisans Tags: traditions & folklore nature & landscape experiences & activities arts & artisans 0 CommentairesSardinia is a land able to charm thanks to the versatility of the territory and of the millennial culture. Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites aims to let these multiple wonderful aspects...
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Catégories Traditions & Folklore Nature & Landscape History & Culture Tags: traditions & folklore nature & landscape history & culture 0 CommentairesAn hour's drive from the Gabbiano Azzurro Hotel & Suites , we arrive at an enchanted place near Oschiri town: " Oh my, this is the Hobbits land! " I tell myself. And I recall the stor...
Lire la suitePinna Nobilis Or Noble Pen Shell
Catégories Sealife & Watersports Nature & Landscape Tags: sealife & watersports nature & landscape 0 CommentairesThe Pinna Nobilis, commonly known as Noble Pen Shell or Fan Mussel , is one of the largest bivalve molluscs living in muddy bottoms, with the toe of the shell firmly planted in...
Lire la suiteSardinia: Not Only Sun, Salt and Sea
Catégories Nature & Landscape History & Culture Experiences & Activities Tags: nature & landscape history & culture experiences & activities 0 CommentairesWhile reading and studying Sardinia with immense wonder, I persist in discovering its countless cultural treasures. And the more I learn, the more I realize I still know very little ... and its appea...
Lire la suiteDolmen, Menhir & Cromlech
Catégories Nature & Landscape History & Culture Tags: nature & landscape history & culture 0 CommentairesA few years ago in England, 13 kms far from Salisbury, I was fascinated observing Stonehenge, supposed to represent an "ancient astronomical observatory" consisting of megaliths. Stonehenge is undoub...
Lire la suiteTiscali's Nuragic Village
Catégories Nature & Landscape Hiking & Trekking Experiences & Activities Tags: nature & landscape hiking & trekking experiences & activities 0 CommentairesTiscali, the well-known Sardinian telecommunication company, founded in 1998 by Renato Soru, is well known to most of Italians, but perhaps not everyone knows that the company owes its name to t...
Lire la suiteSa Pompìa: The Unique Citrus Of Sardinia
Catégories Nature & Landscape Food Tags: nature & landscape food 0 CommentairesIn mid-November the Competition for 2019 Best Panettone in the World took place in Rome, meaning that the panettone is now belonging not only to Milan's history and tradi...
Lire la suiteThe Arbustus
Catégories Traditions & Folklore Nature & Landscape History & Culture Food Tags: traditions & folklore nature & landscape history & culture food 0 CommentairesWhile most of us know that the Arbutus is an evergreen sapling, typical of the Mediterranean scrub in Sardinia, perhaps not everyone knows that during the Italian Risorgimento&nbs...
Lire la suiteThe Precious Wines Of Sardinia
Catégories Nature & Landscape History & Culture Food Experiences & Activities Tags: nature & landscape history & culture food experiences & activities 0 CommentairesThe history of wine in Sardinia has very ancient origins. Iron Age’s Nuragic who lived on the island between 900 and 750 a. C. was the first red wine producers in the Mediterranean. This h...
Lire la suiteSu Zinzulu: The Jujube
Catégories Nature & Landscape Food Tags: nature & landscape food 0 CommentairesThe vegetation in Sardinia is mainly formed by the Mediterranean scrub which includes holm oak, cork, phillyrea, arbutus and some species of juniper (high scrub), and the lentisk, the heather, the s...
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