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Luigi Usai has claimed Atlantis could be beneath Sardinia and Corsica. Atlantis would be the bathymetrically submerged island whose plateaus form what we know as the islands of Sardinia and Corsica outside the surface of the water. The capital would have its center on a hill near the small town of Santadi, in the province of Cagliari. Starting ...
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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.
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 ...
The Nuragic civilization, [1] [2] also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age.According to the traditional theory put forward by Giovanni Lilliu in 1966, it developed after multiple migrations from the West of people related to the Beaker culture who conquered and disrupted the local Copper Age cultures; other scholars instead ...
The coast and the lighthouse of Capo Sandalo The so-called "Columns of Carloforte". San Pietro Island (Italian: Isola di San Pietro, Ligurian Tabarchino: Uiza de San Pé, Sardinian: Isula 'e Sàntu Pèdru) is an island approximately seven kilometres (four nautical miles) off the South western Coast of Sardinia, Italy, facing the Sulcis peninsula.
Because the southern part of Sardinia is sinking into the Mediterranean Sea, a substantial part of the former town is now under water. [10] A similar fate has befallen nearby Bithia, now completely submerged. Nora was an important trading town in its time, with two protected harbours, one on each side of the peninsula.
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]