Nuoro

Nuoro ("N?goro" -- literally "home" -- in ancient Nuoro's dialect), is the main town of central Sardinia, Italy.

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Made a province during Fascism, it is the administrative center of one of Europe's less densely populated areas.

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Laying over the central mountains, in a panoramic position, Nuoro is the most typical Sardinian town, the one where Sardinians feel their roots lie.

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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.

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Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize for literature (1926), was born here and her works are about Nuoro or its district.

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Scientists in many disciplines, and artists like sculptor Francesco Ciusa Romagna (whose "La Madre dell'Ucciso" = the mother of the killed, is now in Rome at National Modern Gallery) or xylographers like prof. Remo Branca.

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Nugoro demonstrates however a particular devotion to jurisprudence, and one of its better writers, university professor Salvatore Satta, is at the same time famous for his civil procedural studies and books as well as for his literature's masterpiece Il Giorno del Giudizio (translated in more than 90 languages) - see below.

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Recently (1975) described with superbly depictive scenarios in Salvatore Satta's "Il Giorno del Giudizio", Nugoro is still a rural town, with two main popular areas named "Seuna" (accent on "e") and "San Pietro".

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Nuoro also possess one of the purest and daily used variant of the Sardinian language, "Su Nugoresu".

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Sardinia: Sardinia (Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardegna in Italian, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. It forms part of Italy....

Italy: Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries...

Fascism: Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. Similar political movements spread across Europe between World War One and World War Two and took several forms such as Nazism and Cleri...