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It's intact the charme of the historical centre of the Catalan Alghero

It was found during the XII century by the powerful genoese family of the Dorias, but they were the Aragoneses to impose the Catalan language, which is still today spoken by the inhabitants. Alghero and its historical centre are still suffering the Aragonese rule, begun in the far 1353. (...)

Oristano, the town which gave birth to Eleonora d'Arborea

Oristano is province capital since 1974, (the fourth one after Cagliari, Sassari and Nuoro). The economy of its area is chiefly based on agriculture and craft, but in the last twenty years the industrial sector as well, has developped thanks to the impulse (...)

Sassari, the royal city which has the ambition of leading the region

The Province of Sassari, even though it has ceded a good part of its territory to the new provincial councils of Olbia and Tempio (through the local-government elections of 2005), is the largest one of Sardinia. Sassari is the provice capital: called “Capo di Sopra” (head of the upper part), (...)

The province of Nuoro was instituted in 1927

The province of Nuoro was insituted in 1927 , in order the third one after those of Cagliari and Sassari. In 2005 it had to cede part of its territory to the new, borderings provinces (Ogliastra, Olbia-Tempio, and Medio-Campidano). Nuoro is the bishopric from the end of the eighteenth century (...)

Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia has got 6000 years of history

Cagliari is the political administrative capital of Sardinia beside being the homonymous province. The great writer D.H. Lawrence was enraptured by the limpid sky and by the sun that give a blinding brightness to the city. (...)