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Alghero (Italian: [alˈɡɛːro]; Algherese: L'Alguer; Sardinian: S'Alighera [saliˈɣɛɾa]; Sassarese: L'Aliera [laˈljɛːɾa]) is a city of about 45,000 inhabitants in the Italian province of Sassari in the north west of the island of Sardinia, next to the Mediterranean Sea.
The Alghero-Fertilia/Riviera del Corallo airport serves the area, attracting numerous tourists both Italians and foreigners due to the growing supply of domestic and European destinations. Its territory includes the two main types: mostly flat in the area south of the city and mixed north: here is the highest relief of the area, Mount D' Olla ...
Algherese is a regional dialect spoken by anywhere from 20,000 to 30,000 individuals, most of whom reside in the town of Alghero, located in the northwest of Sardinia. [4] [1] The language, though distinct, is initially derived from, and thus considered a variant of, the Catalan language. [1]
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In the middle of the 1970s, the runway was lengthened to the current 3,000 m (9,800 ft), one of the longest runways in Italy and one of the safest. In 1980, Alitalia established a flight school at Alghero Airport which trained up to 100 pilots a year, in conjunction with a diversification of activities including air taxi and maintenance ...
Neptune's Grotto (Italian: Grotta di Nettuno; Catalan: Cova de Neptú) is a stalactite cave near the town of Alghero on the island of Sardinia, Italy. The cave was discovered by local fishermen in the 18th century and has since developed into a popular tourist attraction. [1] The grotto gets its name from the Roman god of the sea, Neptune.
Depiction of the Sardus Pater Babai in a Roman coin (59 B.C.). Not much can be gathered from the classical literature about the origins of the Sardinian people. [17] The ethnonym "S(a)rd" may belong to the Pre-Indo-European (or Indo-European [18]) linguistic substratum, and whilst they might have derived from the Iberians, [19] [20] the accounts of the old authors differ greatly in this respect.
[175] [176] Alghero is still a Catalan-speaking enclave on Sardinia to this day. [ 176 ] [ 177 ] Nevertheless, the Sardinian language did not disappear from official use: the Catalan juridical tradition in the cities coexisted with that of the Sardinians, marked in 1421 by the Parliamentary extension of the Arborean Carta de Logu to the feudal ...