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Your next holiday in Sardinia

In this website you can see many places, monuments, traditions of Sardinia. Perhaps you would also like to see all this in person one day. You could do it with us... and really not as a slogan. Here at Isola Sarda we will not offer you 1000 hotels or houses, but only 2. One is for who prefer a holiday at the beach and another is for who prefer to make a different trip every day. To know more about it follow these links: You holiday at the beach - The base for your excursions

Giara of Gesturi

Among the upland plains and hills in the fertile Marmilla plain, marked by the Rio Mannu (torrent) most impressive is the upland plain called Giara of Gesturi. It is the wider one of the area, with an extension of about 45 Km square, raising up from the surrounding plain in a sort of natural monolitic fortress for about 500 mt. height. It is constituted by basaltic rock with volcanic origins and covered by all the typical species of the Mediterranean flora .... (continues)..

The first WebGIS application in Sardinia

Today we all know Google Maps, Google Earth and many other great WebGIS applications that are spreading over the net. In the year 2000 GeoSardegna was rhe first web geo-portal made in our island. It's still here as a sample of "computer archeology".

I Candelieri - The candle bearers

The candles in Sassari are identified with the "Great Feast". What are they exactly? What do they represent for the city of Sassari? We shall seek to establish once and for all, in what year and why they originated. To establish their genesis, it will be easier to penetrate the heart of the people of Sassari and really understand what they mean to the inhabitants who were so cruelly stricken by natural calamities in the distant 1582... (continues)

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Telling you about Sardinia since 1997

The Internet was still in its pioneering stages in the late twentieth century and there weren't many users.
The sites available were mostly experimental and as such, they often disappeared quickly.
The majority of sites featured cultural content and e-commerce hadn't yet arrived on the Net.
The Isola Sarda site was developed during that period, becoming a milestone and filling a vacuum that would last at least ten years.
Today, it still continues to welcome its many visitors who are searching for information about our beautiful island.
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