An exploration of Sardinia's rich history and culture, featuring
shipwrecks, ancient castles and underwater ruins.
Tourism in Sardinia is booming, yet there is nothing else in print that
deals with the island's incredibly rich history and culture, which
stretches back to the Neolithic period. This book details everyone from
the Phoenicians to the Carthaginians and Aragonese who invaded Sardinia,
which is covered with some of the most fascinating historical and
archaeological sites in Europe--from thousands of nuraghi, Bronze Age
towers and settlements, to giant's grave and fairy house tombs. It also
holds eccentric festivals, from Barbagia's carnival parade of ghoulish
mamuthones, said to banish winter demons, to the death-defying S'Ardia
horse race in Sedilo. There are shipwrecks off Cagliari's coast,
underwater caves and submerged Roman ruins in addition to ancient
castles, churches, undisturbed hilltop villages and 2,000 miles of some
of the most beautiful coastline in the world.