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We start with an unequivocal fact: 16 Tre Bicchieri is a record for Sardinia and, if we compare that to the number of wines sent for tasting, the region is among the best performing in Italy. Having said that, it would be wrong to stop at just this figure. The quality of the wine continues to grow from harvest to harvest, and it's appropriate to co...

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Sardinia is Italy’s 2nd largest island located off the western coast of Italy separated by the Tyrhhenian Sea. Sardinia is one of the few regions I have yet to explore in Italy and I’m not sure why. It has a rugged, mountainous interior with forests and scrub covered land.  It also has about 1,200 miles of coastline, some jagged, but the rest with...

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ARIES – The first sign of the zodiac, these rams love to be number one and aren’t afraid to dive into challenging situations, no matter how hard they may be. The same is true of MATERA, a city dug into a rocky outcrop in Basilicata whose challenges are (quite literally) as hard as stone. Annoyed by excessive details and needless nuances, Aries woul...

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A picturesque Mediterranean island is looking for people to move there, and authorities are willing to pay some hard cash to help persuade potential new residents. Sardinia is the Mediterranean's second-largest island, after Sicily, but like many parts of Italy the population is rapidly ageing with many of the younger population deciding to move aw...

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If you’re planning a trip through Europe, don’t forget to consider these Italian villages. “To visit them is to participate in Italy’s beauty while helping keep these enchanting places alive,” says Fiorello Primi, president of the “Most Beautiful Villages in Italy” association (I Borghi più belli d’Italia). While you know Rome, Florence, or Milan,...

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Sardinia is among the most popular destinations for foreigners wishing to buy a home in Italy for vacation. From the United States to Germany, in fact, requests for real estate by those living abroad are growing, and in the rankings of the increase in demand, the island is even in first place with a +73.87%. The data analysis was compiled by the in...

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If you’ve ever fantasised about moving to a sunny island, now’s your chance: Sardinia is offering people a mammoth €15,000 to relocate. The Italian island - the second largest in the Mediterranean - boasts sandy beaches, blue skies and turquoise waters. But the island paradise faces dwindling rural population numbers, as young locals move abroad fo...

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Megalithic stone towers still speckle the countryside. They're called nuraghi and they're ancient. Then there are the "sacred wells" in which you can descend into the underworld, your fingers grazing basalt walls so finely worked you couldn't shove a piece of paper between the perfectly honed stones if you tried. They're even older. Roman spring-fe...

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Dear friends, even in August, ciao from a Rome full of American tourists and empty of us Romans!   In early August a dear friend traveling to Liguria sent me a photo, taken by him. While driving he had seen a sign that had attracted his curiosity, and he knew well that it would interest me as well. The photo is the one you see here: Cogoleto, the s...

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Discover Sardegna Innovation Lifestyle is the project carried out by Innois, a platform for innovation of the Fondazione di Sardegna and American Chamber of Commerce in Italy AmCham, with the involvement of Smeralda Consulting as technical partner, in collaboration with We The Italians and The National Italian American Foundation NIAF.  It was crea...

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