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Nuoro

Province of Nuoro, Sardegna (Sardinia, Sardinien), Italy

Locality: Nuoro is the main town of central Sardinia, made a province during Fascism, located in a panoramic position in the central mountains area. It was called the Sardinian Athens, due to the huge number of poets, writers and intellectuals that here took part in a quite original culture. Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize for literature (1926), was born here and her works are about Nuoro or its district. Nugro is still a rural town, with two main popular areas named "Seuna" (accent on "e") and "San Pietro".

The best preserved ethnic area of Sardinia (and perhaps of all Europe, as recently scientifically demonstrated by geneticists) is Barbagia, that belongs to Nuoro's jurisdiction and defers to Nuoro for everything. Nuoro also possesses one of the purest and daily used variant of the Sardinian language, "Su Nugoresu". Its economy relies mainly on agriculture, sheep breeding, art and tradition related business, tourism and light industry.

Info:

Altitude: 550 m a.s.l -- Population: about 36,000 inhabitants -- Zip/postal code: 08100 -- Phone Area Code: 0784 -- Patron Saint: San Riccardo celebrated on the 3rd Sunday in September -- Frazioni & Località: Lollove

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What to see:

The Cathedral, the old church of Le Grazie, Corso Garibaldi, Sant'Onofrio Hill, Rione Santu Predu, Rione Seuna, Grazia Deledda's House, the Church of Nostra Signora della Solitudine (a delicate simple church in which Grazia Deledda's body rests), Monte Ortobene, the Ethnological Museum.

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