Alghero

I am in the Larica office, at the University of Urbino, just arrived by way of Ancona from Alghero, Sardinia.

And the skies opened... Torill 2009

I am in the Larica office, at the University of Urbino, just arrived by way of Ancona from Alghero, Sardinia.

Archive 2009-10-01 Torill 2009

Alghero, where you can rent a car at the airport, is a former Aragonese colony where they still speak a Catalan dialect.

A Sardinian Carpet Ride Cathryn Drake 2008

The road between Alghero and Bosa -- a medieval town guarded by a hillside castle and lined with bridges along the river Temo -- snakes among rosy boulders and pinnacles perched above a rugged shoreline.

A Sardinian Carpet Ride Cathryn Drake 2008

A cooperative in Villanova Monteleone, not far inland from Alghero, produces flat-weave carpets in a wool-and-cotton mix with finely detailed geometric patterns in subtle combinations of brown, copper and beige, accented with black and white, which bear resemblance to the Jijim kilims of the Bakhtiari tribe in Iran.

A Sardinian Carpet Ride Cathryn Drake 2008

Each village has its own style, and on a weekend shopping trip beginning in the western port town of Alghero and winding south to Cagliari, you can visit several.

A Sardinian Carpet Ride Cathryn Drake 2008

Of these two ports Alghero is far the best, but all the commerce of Sassari passes through Porto-Torres, by the Strada Reale.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

About half way, stands Oristano, an old city, of some 6000 inhabitants, with some of the Spanish character of Alghero.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

Surrounded by a fertile and well-cultivated country, abounding in orange and olive groves, vineyards, and fields of corn and flax, Alghero is a city of some seven thousand inhabitants, many of them in affluent circumstances.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

Genoa in a disastrous engagement off Alghero; and in 1380, when the

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole