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Sardinia. Sardinia (/ s ɑːr ˈ d ɪ n i ə / sar-DIN-ee-ə; Italian: Sardegna [sarˈdeɲɲa]; Sardinian: Sardigna [saɾˈdiɲːa]) [a] [b] is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and 16.45 km [5] south of the ...
Sassari (US: / ˈ s ɑː s ər i, ˈ s ɑː s ɑːr i / SAH-sər-ee, SAH-sar-ee; [3] [4] Italian: ⓘ; Sassarese: Sàssari; Sardinian: Tàtari) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 127,525 [5] inhabitants, and a Functional Urban Area of about 260,000 inhabitants. [6]
Even now, around 60% of all Italian and US military installations in Italy are on Sardinia, whose area is less than one-tenth of all the Italian territory and whose population is little more than the 2,5%; [52] furthermore, they comprise over 35.000 hectares used for experimental weapons testing, [53] [54] where 80% of the military explosives ...
Sardinia was always ruled by a praefectus (provinciae) Sardiniae and from Claudius on, the main and official title was enriched by the attribute procurator Augusti. [8] [9] [10] The provinces of Corsica and Sardinia were incorporated into the Diocese of Italy by Diocletian in 292 AD, along with Sicily and Malta.
This is a list of the most famous tourist destinations of Sardinia. Minor islands are included from Olbia , clockwise — industrial sites are not included. Main towns
The third part, that is the islands, that is Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, which geographically belongs more to Italy than to France, forms an area of 4000 square leagues; which brings the surface of the whole of Italy to 15,000 square alloys. Here we have considered the natural limits without entering into any political division.
The following is a list of the municipalities of Sardinia, Italy. [1] There are 376 municipalities in Sardinia (as of January 2019): 17 in the Metropolitan City of ...
Tourism in Sardinia is one of the fastest growing sectors of the regional economy. The island attracts more than a million tourists from both Italy (particularly from Lombardy , Piedmont , and Lazio ), from the rest of Europe (especially from Germany and France), and, to a lesser degree, from the rest of the world.