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Sardinia
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Many cyberfriends of mine tell me that they don't
know much about Sardinia.
Some plainly confessed that they didn't even
know where the hell it was.
But many Italians too have got a rather twisted
idea about this Island, for they believe that it's divided in two quite
different parts: on one hand the VIP's paradise, i.e.the Costa Smeralda
and its dependences southwards, on the other the "terra incognita" ruled
by the "Bandits Ltd Co.".
That's the reason because I believed it
useful writing this webpage: to give all my friends a thread to follow
for them to discover my little fatherland. |
If I go gleaming among my memories, I may find some goodies
like these:
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A lady belonging to the Turinese upper middle class once said to me: "But
are you really a Sardinian? That can't be true, nah?!! You're so
well educated and speak Italian so correctly....."
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A Corsican lady, wife of a friend met in Morocco:" You're kidding, Carlo.
You can't be a Sardinian.Sardinians are all wicked, and you aren't so at
all...."
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A Swedish colleague, whom I invited for a dinner along with a French one:
"What I can't understand is whether Sardinia is either an Italian or a
French colony...." (anyway he was drunk).
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Etc. Etc. Etc.
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A simple
Nuraghe .
More
than 8000 Nuraghi
exist
in Sardinia;
they
can be simple
or
multiple.
They
are megalithic buildings
caracterized
by
a
"tholos" vault,
built
by the ancient Sardinians
from
the 20° to the 6°
century
B.C.
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Basilica
of San Saturnino
Cagliari
It
is one of the few
Palaeo-Christian
churchs
left
in Sardinia
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In short, there's enough for persuading me to build this webpage.
Sardinia is an Island situated just in the middle of the Western Mediterranean
Sea which stretches for 24,000 square Km and houses more than 1,600,000
inhabitants; consequently it must not be taken for Capri or Ischia.
In Sardinia, touristic industry is very important, but we don't live
only on it. We've also got other industries such as agriculture, manufactures,
oil refining plants, chemistry, services, etc that give us a per-capita
G.I.P higher than in all regions of Southern Italy. Unfortunately, at present
young people aren't easily finding here available jobs: this is Sardinia's
worse disadvantage . |
We the Sardinians are Europeans , you can bet, and
aren't wicked, as believed my friend Marie-Rose from Cognocoli ( Corse).
We are different from our neighbors from Sicily, Corsica and Continental
Italy because our culture has got different roots, but not more than Bretons
and Basques are different from other French or Spaniards, or Quebecqois
from other Canadians.
In fact, we have got our own language, the Sardinian, that is a Romance
language nearer to Latin than Italian or Spanish and at present is divided
into four local varieties.
We have too a long history, that joins us to Carthaginians and
Spaniards or Catalans more than to Italians. After all, It's
only since 150 years that we are Italians, and only because in 1854 the
Piedmontese Prime Minister Count of Cavour didn't succed giving up Sardinia
to Great Britain in exchange for military alliance against the Austrian
Empire. ( instead he gave up Savoy and Nice to France) |
Basilica
of Saccargia
one
of the many
Romanesque
churchs existing
in
Sardinia
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A
little bay near Arbatax
Sardinian
coasts
are
among
the
most beatiful in the world
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Consequently, we are only Italians by chance. But now, after
that our forebears did pay dear with their blood the entrance ticket to
the Italian Nation ( 27000 deads only in WW1 : almost 10% of the whole
male population at that time, including suckers and old people) and that
mass media have assimil- ated our culture to that of the rest of Italy,
think that we can consider ourselves as Italians; with our own differences,
of course, however as Europeans by full right. |
After
all that, I'm gathering here some links; through them you can enter
websites that may be of some interest for those who want to deepen
their knowledge of Sardinian matters. I suggest a visit to the website
of the Archaeological Museum of Cagliari.
Have
a good visit!!!!
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