L’autunno sta diventando il periodo migliore per conoscere la Sardegna. I motivi per scoprire l’isola durante questa bella stagione sono tantissimi: dal clima alle sagre, dall’escursionismo agli eventi culturali. Perché visitare la Sardegna in autunno La Sardegna è conosciuta soprattutto per le sue spiagge incantevoli e le acque cristalline. Per questo i flussi turistici più …
Listed by the ASCE (Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe) as one of the most significant monumental cemeteries on the continent (November 2011), the Bonaria Monumental Cemetery in Cagliari, one of the most important historical cemeteries in Sardinia, is a veritable historical and artistic compendium that recounts the evolution of Italian sculpture and architecture between the 19th and 20th centuries. The monuments, ...
A historic recognition. On 12 July 2025, Sardinia wrote a new page in its cultural history: the Domus de Janas were officially recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, becoming part of humanity's universal treasures. To celebrate and promote this achievement, the Region of Sardinia participated for the first time ...
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 ...
Cagliari, the "city of the sun", experiences an eternal dance between history and everyday life in its neighbourhoods. Four stories set between the 12th and 15th centuries, each with its own soul, shaped by centuries of events, culture and traditions. One higher up, dominating the city; three others, more intimate, pulsating with life and...
Ogni estate, nel cuore del mese di agosto, la Sardegna si accende di luci, colori e antiche melodie: è il tempo dei Candelieri, solenni e spettacolari processioni votive che animano le strade di Sassari, Iglesias, Ploaghe e Nulvi. Sebbene ogni comunità custodisca riti e dettagli propri, l’anima di queste feste è condivisa: la devozione mariana.
In questo articolo vi accompagniamo in un viaggio attraverso le quattro varianti della tradizione dei Candelieri, mettendole a confronto e sottolineando il loro valore simbolico e comunitario, in un momento dell’anno che rinnova l’identità più profonda del popolo sardo.
Imagine an ordinary day more than three thousand years ago. The sun sets slowly among the Guilcer hills (a geographical area in the centre of Sardinia), dyeing the cyclopean towers of the nuraghi with copper. A man rests his bare feet on bunches of dark grapes, rhythmically pressing them into a basin carved into the rock. Beside him, a ...
In the heat of July 1760, while Europe was going through great political tensions and Enlightenment turmoil, something crucial but often forgotten happened in Sardinia: on 25 July, a royal note signed by the Minister for Sardinian Affairs, Giovanni Battista Lorenzo Bogino, decreed that Italian was to become the only language that could be used in schools and public ...
There are journeys that stick in the memory like luminous photographs. It is not only for the places visited, but for the gaze with which we have discovered them. Sometimes, that gaze belongs to a professional tour guide: a bridge between us and the land, a passionate interpreter of the language of history, nature, the soul of ...
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