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The Grandma has decided to travel to Sardinia, Sardenya for her. She has asked for her friends about this idea and all of them have agreed it.
Joseph de Ca'th Lon, Tina Picotes and Claire Fontaine are going to travel with The Grandma and Tonyi Tamaki, who is now in Iceland, is going to join them next week.
Today, they have flown from Barcelona to Casteddu and they have started this new travel that we are sure it is going to be full of great feelings and unforgettable experiences.
During the flight, The Grandma has started with her new Elementary Language Practice manual (Grammar 1).
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Sardinia, in Sardinian Sardìgnaor or Sardìnnia, in Italian Sardegna, in Sassarese Sardhigna, in Gallurese Saldigna, in Catalan Sardenya, and in Tabarchino Sardegna is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea after Sicily and before Cyprus. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula and to the immediate south of the French island of Corsica.
Sardinia is politically a region of Italy, whose official name is Regione Autònoma de Sardigna, and enjoys some degree of domestic autonomy granted by a specific Statute. It is divided into four provinces and a metropolitan city, with Cagliari being the region's capital and its largest city as well.
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Due to the variety of its ecosystems, which include mountains, woods, plains, largely uninhabited territories, streams, rocky coasts and long sandy beaches, the island has been defined metaphorically as a micro-continent. In the modern era, many travelers and writers have exalted its beauty, remained untouched until the contemporary age and immersed in a landscape that houses the vestiges of the Nuragic civilization.
The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *s(a)rd-, later romanised as sardus, feminine sarda. It makes its first appearance on the Nora Stone, where the word Šrdn testifies to the name's existence when the Phoenician merchants first arrived. According to Timaeus, one of Plato's dialogues, Sardinia and its people as well might have been named after Sardò (Σαρδώ), a legendary woman born in Sardis (Σάρδεις), capital of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia.
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There has also been speculation that identifies the ancient Nuragic Sards with the Sherden, one of the Sea Peoples. It is suggested that the name had a religious connotation from its use also as the adjective for the ancient Sardinian mythological hero-god Sardus Pater, in modern times misunderstood as being Father Sardus, as well as being the stem of the adjective sardonic. In Classical antiquity, Sardinia was called Ichnusa, the Latinised form of Ancient Greek Ἰχνοῦσα, Σανδάλιον Sandalion, Sardinia and Sardó (Σαρδώ).
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea with an area of 24,100 square kilometres. To the west of Sardinia is the Sea of Sardinia, a unit of the Mediterranean Sea; to Sardinia's east is the Tyrrhenian Sea, which is also an element of the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Tyrrhenian Sea portion of the Mediterranean Sea is directly to the east of Sardinia between the Sardinian east coast and the west coast of the Italian mainland peninsula. The Strait of Bonifacio is directly north of Sardinia and separates Sardinia from the French island of Corsica.
The coasts of Sardinia are generally high and rocky, with long, relatively straight stretches of coastline, many outstanding headlands, a few wide, deep bays, rias, many inlets and with various smaller islands off the coast.
The island has an ancient geoformation and, unlike Sicily and mainland Italy, is not earthquake-prone. Its rocks date in fact from the Palaeozoic Era, up to 500 million years old. Due to long erosion processes, the island's highlands, formed of granite, schist, trachyte, basalt, called jaras or gollei, sandstone and dolomite limestone, called tonneri or heels, average at between 300 to 1,000 metres.
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The highest peak is Perdas Carpìas (1,834 m), part of the Gennargentu Ranges in the centre of the island. The island's ranges and plateaux are separated by wide alluvial valleys and flatlands, the main ones being the Campidano in the southwest between Oristano and Cagliari and the Nurra in the northwest.
Sardinia has few major rivers, the largest being the Tirso, 151 km long, which flows into the Sea of Sardinia, the Coghinas (115 km) and the Flumendosa (127 km). There are 54 artificial lakes and dams that supply water and electricity. The main ones are Lake Omodeo and Lake Coghinas. The only natural freshwater lake is Lago di Baratz. A number of large, shallow, salt-water lagoons and pools are located along the 1,850 km of the coastline.
The climate of the island is variable from area to area, due to several factors including the extension in latitude and the elevation. It can be classified in two different macrobioclimates and 43 different isobioclimates.
Rainfall has a Mediterranean distribution all over the island, with almost totally rainless summers and wet autumns, winters and springs. However, in summer, the rare rainfalls can be characterized by short but severe thunderstorms, which can cause flash floods. The climate is also heavily influenced by the vicinity of the Gulf of Genoa, barometric low, and the relative proximity of the Atlantic Ocean. Low pressures in autumn can generate the formation of the so-called Medicanes, extratropical cyclones which affect the Mediterranean basin.
More information: The Telegraph
This land resembles no other place. Sardinia is something else.
Enchanting spaces and distances to travel-nothing finished,
nothing definitive. It is like freedom itself.
David Herbert Lawrence
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