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The most romantic places in Cagliari

13 June 202513 June 2024 by Roberta Carboni

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

5 April 2024 by Roberta Carboni

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 ...

Holy Week in Cagliari and traditional processions

25 March 2024 by Roberta Carboni

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. ...

Sardinia and Carnival, between folklore and tradition

13 February 2024 by Roberta Carboni

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 ...

Resistance in Sardinia by Sardinians against Roman domination.

6 February 20245 February 2024 by Massimiliano Schirru

Even before the Roman invasion, Sardinia was within Rome's trade, but was firmly controlled by the Carthaginians. Trade for the Romans was authorised by the Carthaginian government through a herald or scribe. A first Roman settlement of about 500 civilians on the island occurred around 380 B.C. with the colony of ...

Sardinian bread

2 February 20241 February 2024 by Antonio Casu

The variety of bread in Sardinia derives from an ancient tradition of processing wheat flour, the cultivation of which in the plains had been practised extensively for millennia. There are hundreds of different types of bread, differing in shape, preparation, ingredients and place of production. The basic ingredients for making ...

The Romans in Sardinia and the presence of the Castra on the island.

17 January 202417 January 2024 by Massimiliano Schirru

In Sardinia, in the north west of the island, near Sassari in the locality of La Crucca, there is the first and only existing reconstruction in Italy of a 2000-year-old Roman fortress from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD: a Roman Castrum. Thanks to the Castrum Romano Association, born out of a passion for ancient Rome, it is possible to get a clear idea ...

Cabras

24 October 2023 by Antonio Casu

On the left bank of the homonymous pond, also called Mari Pontis, Cabras rises a few kilometres from Oristano, with which it borders to the east, while to the west it faces the sea and with its thirty kilometres of coastline includes the Sinis peninsula and the two uninhabited islets of Catalano and Mal di Ventre. Attested ...

The grape harvest in Sardinia

15 September 202315 September 2023 by Roberta Carboni

The grape harvest - in Sardinia known as 'sa binnenna' or 'sa innenna' - represents a crucial moment that sanctions the meeting of work, knowledge and ingenuity and is expressed in the picking of the bunches of grapes patiently left to ripen. Although the grape harvest takes place between the end of August and the end of October, September in the world of ...

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