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Informazioni utili Sardegna
AN ISLAND ON THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Sardinia, situated in the middle of the Mediterranean, extends for about 24,000 square km: the Tyrrhenian Sea washes the East coast of the island, the Sardinian Sea the West coast, on the South coast the Mediterranean Sea while on the North it is washed by the Straits of the Mouths of Bonifacio, which separates it from Corse, which once was joined to Sardinia as one territory. Apart from the closeness to this small island, Sardinia is far from the continental coasts more than any other island in this sea.Sardinia, is dotted by magnificent gulfs which are a landfall for all those who want to visit and live it. Among these, the gulf of Cagliari, Olbia and Porto Torres, and many others which offer the possibility of visiting this corner of Paradise.
The territory
Our territory is mainly mountainous, but high mountains are absent; the highest peak is represented by Punta Lamarmora, 1834 metres (on the Gennargentu massif) situated in the heart of the island. The only true plain is the one in Campidano which crosses the island from West to South, connecting the gulf of Oristano to the gulf of Cagliari.
The weather
The weather is mild, the temperature is almost always hospitable throughout the year; the sky is often clear, the grey cloudy days are very rare and the rainfalls are mostly between November and February, while the temperature reaches degrees below zero only in very few winter days and only in the inner and high areas.
The most frequent winds are the Mistral, fresh and dry, whereas from the North-West the Sirocco, hot and humid coming from Africa.
Population
The population in Sardinia is of about 1.600.000 inhabitants, of which 400.000 are gathered in the metropolitan area of Cagliari. Therefore, it is one of the least populated areas of Europe, and therefore it is easy to find uncontaminated places, where man's presence is totally absent, or is concentrated in small urban centres.
Sardinia is the most ancient region in Italy
From a geological point of view, our land, together with Corse, is part of a sole rock foundation, and it is very similar to certain zones of the Iberian peninsula (Meseta) and of Southern France (Black Mountain). Sardinia becomes an island between the Cretaceous period and the Oligocene epoch. The vegetal deposits are formed in the area called Sulcis (CA) which will evolve, in time, into lignite (a kind of brown coal). During the Oligocene epoch, (38-26 Ma) because of a complex tectonic event (alpine orogenesis) the Alps were born, the Appennines, the Pyrenees, the Atlantic chain. Sardinia and Corse, which were up to that moment linked to the continental mass, became detached from the rest of the continent, and moving anticlockwise in rotary motion, set themselves in their present position in the middle of the Western Mediterranean. During the Miocene period (26-5.2 Ma) a large area of the island was invaded by the sea again:the earth's crust extended and a trench was created which was then covered by the sea (the Sardinian Trench), extended from the Gulf of Asinara to the Gulf of Cagliari.
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B&B in Cagliari and in Sardinia.
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B&B in Cagliari and in Sardinia.
