Nuoro

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

Related Topics:
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.

Related Topics:
Fascism - Europe

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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.

Related Topics:
Grazia Deledda - Nobel Prize - Literature - 1926

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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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Rome - Xylographers

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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.

Related Topics:
Jurisprudence - Language

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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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