Travel Guide Cagliari
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The capital of Sardinia extends on several hills that plunge into the sea by forming the "Baie des Anges".Cagliari (154,411 inhabitants, 500,000 in the urban area) is dominated by its old fortified city, which, perched on its rocky promontory, proudly overlooks the bay. This beautiful neighborhood with winding streets has a curiously quiet atmosphere, typical of Southern Italy, with the linen drifting to the windows, local life at slow pace and freshness that comes to save you from the suffocating summer chalets of Cagliari. The lower town is no less charming, with its very lively squares and its streets that gently descend onto the marina. This is probably the only place in Sardinia where you can feel a real urban and cosmopolitan breath. Students, workers, traders, immigrants and tourists live there in a tempo both animated and nonchalant. The marina, with its «via Roma» at the high arcades, has the typical attractions of a Mediterranean port.Certainly, as everywhere in the Sardinian cities, the 1970-1980 s brought a somewhat chaotic and unaesthetic urban extension, but it did not take anything away from the beauty and charming atmosphere of the historic city.Finally, there is something falling in love with «Karalis white», as the Phoenicians called it. This name, which drifts from kar (i. e. "stone" in carthaginois), appears to be the white limestone, the stone found in the quarries of the surrounding area and with which most buildings in the city have been built.
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