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The island of Sardinia is one of my favorite regions of Italy. Sardinia is well known for its beautiful, pristine beaches and clean, clear sea and unlike in many parts of Italy, the majority of the beaches are free. Beaches range from sandy beaches with calm waters to rocky beaches with strong surf and even beaches accessed only by hiking or by boa...

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Soccer, considered in Italy almost as a religion, has been telling beautiful and sometimes really exciting pages of history for over 100 years. One of these was written in 1970, exactly 50 years ago. In those years Italy was still experiencing the famous economic boom of the '60s, that of well-being for all the people who came out a few years befor...

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There's another boat on the water going after the America's Cup. The Luna Rossa, Italy's challenger for sailing's most prestigious prize, was christened Wednesday in Cagliari on the Isle of Sardinia. The Circolo della Vela Sicilia yacht club is the third to launch, joining Emirates Team New Zealand and the New York Yacht Club's American Magic. Afte...

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The America's Cup World Series will begin in Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia from April 23-26. It will be the first competition for the innovative AC75 class boats that will vie for the America's Cup in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2021. The World Series regatta had been scheduled for October but was pushed back. Teams had feared another de...

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Newlywed Andrea Benedetto was drowning off a Sardinian beach on Sunday when Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini dived in to rescue him. Magnini, a former world champion, plunged in after friends of Mr Benedetto shouted to sunbathers on Cala Sinzias beach, just east of Cagliari. Magnini kept Mr Benedetto's head above water until lifeguards arrived. "I j...

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Teatri, musei, gallerie, biblioteche: l'Italia è un immenso giacimento culturale. Misurando la quantità dei siti culturali il portale Holidu ha fatto una classifica delle città perfette da questo punto di vista, quasi un Grand Tour delle 10 città con più cultura d’Italia. Come disse Elio Vittorini “La cultura non è professione per pochi: è una cond...

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Cagliari, the “happiest city in Italy,” is the Capital of the impossibly beautiful Island of Sardinia, and is rich in history.  Similar to Rome in that it is spread out over seven hills, bears the traces of the Phoenician, Carthaginian and Roman dominations, and jealously preserves the vestiges of 13th- and 14th-Century Pisan fortresses (the Torre...

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We are excited to invite WE the Italians' readers to an upcoming benefit concert by Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the orchestra and choir of the famed Cagliari Opera in Sardinia, to the Basilica. Please see the information about the concert and historical background below. We hope you will be able to share this with your readers on the website and Fac...

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Fisico scultoreo da ragazzone americano cresciuto a football, basketball e baseball, Ethan Lovall, 28 anni, di Rochester, New York, vive a Quartu dal 2015 e della Sardegna apprezza soprattutto lo stile di vita: una terra di una  bellezza unica e selvaggia, in cui i rapporti umani e la natura hanno ancora un ruolo centrale nella vita delle persone....

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di Giampaolo Colletti   Nel 2015 sogno di ripartire da quell'Italia che ho ammirato anche nel corso del 2014. Quante strade, quanti viaggio, quante persone ho avuto il piacere di incontrare nell'anno che sta per chiudersi. Un futuro che si prova a disegnare a immagine e somiglianza della propria comunità locale, cercando nelle nuove tecnolo...

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