In Sardegna

Sant'Antioco è l'isola del sulcis situata a sud ovest della Sardegna. E' poco conosciuta, ma vanta un mare cristallino
 e pulito ideale per le vacanze, col vantaggio di essere decisamente alla portata di tutti. I prezzi della vita non sono
infatti paragonabili a quelli delle più famose coste sarde nonostante il mare e le spiagge siano di altissimi livelli per
pulizia, igiene e bellezza. Il profumo della macchia mediterranea, l'ospitalità della sua gente e le specialità culinarie
rendono questo posto indimenticabile
Cala Sapone si trova nell'omonima località sull'isola di Sant'Antioco. È raggiungibile percorrendo la strada costiera,
 che dall'abitato di Sant'Antioco conduce a Capo Sperone, per una decina di chilometri, quindi si attraversa l'isola verso est.

Per saperne di più vi invito a dare un’occhiata al bellissimo articolo, sulla zona, di Silvia Ugolotti:
http://viaggi.corriere.it/viaggi/vacanze/2010/sardegna_sant_antioco/sant_antioco.shtml

In  our Country there are more than 44 million pets.
We thought of telling you about of a nice idea of our  Tourism Minister, in the person of Minister Michela Brambilla, of a  website where there are many facilities where our 4-legged friends are welcomed
You can look at the following site: http://www.turistia4zampe.it/index.php/home
Being very sensitive on this subject, we find it a fantastic initiative

See you in Sardinia!

If you are on holiday in Cagliari and you are tired of churches, monuments and shopping you can relax for a few hours,visiting  the Botanical Garden of the University of Cagliari, located in Viale S. Ignazio
 close to the  Roman Amphitheatre.
Established in 1866, covers an area of 5 hectares.

Open daily from 8:00 to 13:30 in winter, and last Sunday
in March and last Saturday of October from 8.00 to 13.30 and from 15.00 to 19.00

Microclimatic characteristics of the area have encouraged the  development of plants and species
 from areas having a Mediterranean climate and tropical plants.
Newly established (1966) is the area of medicinal plants, which has 150 species grouped
according to their therapeutic uses. You can count about 600 trees, with monumental specimens
belonging to different genera.

There is a Roman empty water tunk reachable through  a tunnel. If you sing inside , the acoustic

effect is to hear a sound so melodious that seem incredible to come  out of your mouth.

Good fun!

Food to discover.

Sardinian cooking has quite a lot of typical and exclusive dishes. Some of these are spaghetti with dried grated grey mullet roes, known as bottarga, fish-filled ravioli, the pasta from Oristano of cream and spinaci known as Malloreddus, Merca (grey mullet steamed and conserved in a herb from the laguna).
Among meat based dishes there is ghisau, a special meat stew, lamb cooked in the gallura style with the local herbs.

Another very important element in Sardinian cooking is bread and derivatives, with many varieties, once served on special occasions or for everyday, civraxiu, tasty and crunchy, su pane e trigu prepared in wood ovens and the renowned pane carasau or better known as music paper bread, the dough is rolled very thin and cooked twice, its biscuit like qualities made it ideal for conservation and so the shepherds used to use it in their long walks across the mountains.

Among the sweet meats there are sebadas, ravioli filled with fresh cheese aromatised with lemon and covered with honey, many cakes based on almonds, the most famous being sas melicheddas and sos chericheddos made of almond paste. The best known wines are Vernaccia of Oristano, a good sherry substitute, Malvasia of Bosa, a sweet accompaniment to your dessert and Cannonau of Cagliari, a hearty red, a good eating companion.

Places to Visit.

The nuragic towers: these are prehistoric constructions probably originally built for defence, found only in Sardinia. The form is a cone generally built of stone lined up layer on layer. Inside there is a circular chamber which varies fro 5 mt to 25, often with a guard space at the beginning for the soldier standing guard to whatever was deemed precious then.

A stair at the entrance leads up to the top of the cone moving across the whole circumference. The name comes from the ancient word 'nura' save or accumulate. There are about 7000 of these monuments in Sardinia built over a long period of prehistory.