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Alghero HELLO and Welcome to CORAL L'ALGUER B & B in Alghero, situated in small town lying 35 km from Sassari, a land that overlooks the sea extending in different km of coastline along the pristine yet evocative Coral Riviera, a gift that lush in the form corallium rubrum, one of the treasures that local artists develop in masterly fashion. Today Alghero owns approx. 40,000 inhabitants, but it certainly was welcoming since Neolithic period in which date from the first human settlements, with testimonies of rites of a magical-religious, inside the Grotta Verde (Green Cave) NATURE AND CULTURE: Treasury, facing the sea, but inherent in the heart of the earth are the legendary Caves of Neptune, cavers and occasional visitors are in agreement in defining "a gift of heaven" (The Duke of Buckimgham) these conformations type carsick that evolve in exceptional limestone concretions: stalagmites and stalactites (others who have visited the grottoes are: the geographer Lamarmora, Savoie, Captain WH Smith Baron of Maltzan and the writer Sardinian Enrico Costa). They are both accessible by sea, either by land. These are some of the treasures that are offered by nature, but also from an environment rich in culture and folklore. As a strong impact fortification (Muralla) that still protects the oldest part of the city (The Alguer vella), started during the Genoese domination, under the family Doria (XII-XIII.) Land of berthing and conquest , Alghero differs from the rest of for more cultures and traditions: from 1354 to 1720 under the rule Catalan and Castilian, are clear fingerprints of civil-sacred. There are several palaces and churches of Gothic Catalan and the traditional cultural heritage and language.
LANGUAGE: Unique in
Italy and Sardinia is the local spoken:
algherese is a dialect of Catalan, legible
especially even
in the place names of streets, and architecture, squares, churches
and palaces (carrers, places, iglesies the
palaus).
ARCHAEOLOGY: These
and other curiosities will give this city.
Places like the enchanted
Domus de Janas in
the Sardinian "fairy houses", or the necropolis
of Anghelu Ruju (in Sardinian language = red
Angel) a singular an archaeological complex of
tombs ipogeiche, which for the number, well 38
holds primacy in 'island. Still the complex
nuragic of
Nuraghe Palmavera, one of the most
interesting of Sardinia. Alghero, Carrabuffas street n°46 tel 347.7566095. email: enea4002@yahoo.it
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