Basketwork on display in the museum

Castelsardo

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May 25th 2011
25 May 2011 We moved eastward along the north coast to the attractive town of Castelsardo which is built on the side of a hill with a walled old quarter and castle at its summit. The town is well known for its basketwork made from the locally picked dwarf palm leaves which was displayed in a good museum and on sale at the doors of some of the houses. From here we moved into the mountainous ... 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