Wendy admiring one of the murals

Visits on the way to Cagliari

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May 13th 2011
13 May 2011 We progressed gently southward today to Sardinia’s capital, Cagliari, calling in at a few interesting places on route. From our overnight car park stop we could see a perfect conical hill with a ruined castle on top of it. This turned out to be the twelfth century Castello di Marmilla (La Marmilla is the area we were in) close to the village of Las Plassas and we were able to wa ... read more

Europe » Italy

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more