Theme Week Sardinia – Quartu Sant’Elena

21 April 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Golfo di Geremeas © Marco Walker/cc-by-sa-3.0

Golfo di Geremeas © Marco Walker/cc-by-sa-3.0

Quartu Sant’Elena, located four miles East from Cagliari on the ancient Roman road, is a city and comune in the Province of Cagliari. It is the third biggest city of Sardinia with a population of 69,000. The city’s name comes from its distance to Cagliari (Quartum miles, Latin for “four miles”), and from the passage there of St. Helena, mother of emperor Constantine.   read more…

Cagliari, capital of Sardinia

21 February 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Flamingoes at Cagliari © Stefano Marrocu/cc-by-sa-3.0

Flamingoes at Cagliari © Stefano Marrocu/cc-by-sa-3.0

Cagliari is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an Autonomous Region of Italy. Cagliari’s Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has nearly 150,000 inhabitants, while its metropolitan area has more than 480,000 inhabitants. It is also the seat of the University of Cagliari.   read more…

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