Roberta Carboni 
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Sardinia, when industry had not yet replaced agriculture and stockbreeding, Christmas was an important period of social cohesion, an occasion to restore the integrity of the family unit, often temporarily shattered by the ties of men's transhumance to the pastures or the countryside. Christmas in Sardinia is not ...
Una celebrazione a metà tra il sacro e il profano è quella di “Is animeddas”, con origini incerte e misteriose, che si differenzia in modo significativo e che porta con sé antichi elementi di paganesimo. A differenza di quanto avviene in molti centri italiani ed europei, dove la pratica di commemorare i morti è stata …
September is a month symbolising recovery, good intentions and new beginnings. In Sardinia, it is still called 'Cabudanni', despite the fact that much time has passed since September in our island signalled the beginning of the year. The name comes from 'Caput anni', which in the Greek calendar represented the first month of the year. Sardinia, controlled by Byzantium since ...
Cagliari boasts one of the most beautiful and cleanest seas in Italy, allowing it to be compared to some of the best known exotic locations in the world. In this article we look at the 8 most beautiful beaches in and around Cagliari that are absolutely worth discovering. Poetto Beach The Poetto beach is outside the city's ...
Cagliari has made many travellers and intellectuals fall in love with it, who from time to time over the years, even for just a few days, have found themselves discovering it, recounting it, and finally loving it. In her beautiful essay 'Cagliari la città dell'amore' (Cagliari, the city of love), Luce Spano recounts the wonder of the young Grazia Deledda observing the courtship that took place under the balconies of the houses in the neighbourhoods of ...
Laconi is a pretty village in the Province of Oristano with 1850 inhabitants, on the border between Barbagia and South Sardinia, in the historical region of Sarcidano. Laconi is a precious jewel set in the centre of the island, characterised by nature, archaeology, traditions and devotion, and extreme hospitality. For these reasons, it has received the important Orange Flag award ...
The Holy Week processions in Cagliari - sa Chida Santa, in the Sardinian language - are many and start on Passion Friday and end on Easter Monday. The rituals of Holy Week date back to the 17th century, when Sardinia was under Spanish political hegemony, and thus preserve the authenticity of traditions with over four hundred years of history. ...
Carnival is among the world's oldest ritual festivals. It is a mix of elements taken from the pagan agro-pastoral world and from elements linked to the Christian religion that blend together with popular culture and tradition, combining superstition, magic, esotericism ending in the most brutal transgression. Carnival was born in order to overturn the customs, values and norms of everyday life, preceding Lent, in which ...
The cult of the dead constitutes the oldest ritual celebration in the world. In Sardinia, an ancestral and mysterious land where ritual has always governed the various stages of life, death has always played a fundamental role in the social life of every community, from the most remote times. Seen as a continuation of life in ...
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