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…

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