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S.E.A. - Società Esercizio Agenzie S.r.l.
Via Mazzini, 47 - Alghero (SS)
P. IVA 01482840905
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Alghero 2010
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| About Alghero |
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| Alghero is a very rare Italian phenomenon, a tourist town that is also a flourishing fishing port. The economy is not totally based on tourism, which makes this port a “very real” place to visit. The predominant flavor here is Catalan, since there was a huge, deliberate influx of Catalans following the overthrow of the Doria family by Pedro IV of Aragon in 1354. |
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Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean, it is 270 km long by 120 km wide and the surface of the island is mostly mountainous with the highest point being 1834 m. at the Monti del Gennargentu. It was colonized and invaded by the Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Pisans, Genoese and Spanish. It is often said that the Sardinians, known on the Island as Sardi, were never really conquered, they just retreated into the hills. |
| The island is dotted with thousands of nuraghi, conical shaped stone houses and fortresses that are thought to have been from the very first inhabitants, the Nuraghic people of 2000 B.C. |
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The landscape ranges from the “savage, dark bushed, sky exposed land” described by D. H. Lawrence to incredibly beautiful gorges and valleys, to the rugged isolation of the mountain range and the unspoiled coastline. Alghero is one of the most popular tourist resorts. It is situated on the west coast in the area known as the Coral Riviera. |
| Alghero was founded at the beginning of the 12th century by the Doria family of Genoa but taken over in 1354 by the Aragonese who settled a colony of Catalans there, and even today it is known as the Catalan city of Sardinia. During the Spanish period, it played an increasingly important role as a result of its strategic position and in 1501 it was officially given the rank of a “city” and became entitled to use the prefix “fedelissima” (most faithful) as a result of its role in the struggle on behalf of Spain. Today you see significant traces of the Aragonese and Spanish domination in the urban layout of its most ancient quarters, in the defensive towers, in stretches of the city walls, in palaces which were private homes but above all in its splendid Gothic religious monuments, such as the Church and Cloister of San Francesco, whose furnishings date back to Spanish and Piedmontese times. The Cathedral, dedicated to Santa Maria, dates from the 16th century and is built in Gothic Catalan style, but there are also several other churches of interest. |
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