Life in Sardinia is perhaps the best we can hope for a man: twenty four thousand kilometres of forests, campaigns, coasts immersed in a sea miraculous should coincide with what I recommend to good for us as God of Heaven
(Fabrizio De Andrè, 1996)
Sardinia (Sardigna or Sardinnia in sardinian, Sardenya in Catalan) is an island and an autonomous region with special status part of the Italian Republic.
In modern times, many travelers and writers have exalted in their works the beauties of the island, surrounded by an environment largely untouched, which houses a botanical landscape and fauna species unique in the world and in which there are also the remains of not yet sufficiently known nuragico period, the Phoenician and Punic, Roman. The English writer David Herbert Lawrence, in his pilgrimage within Barbagie, wrote in his diary amazed travel:
This land is not like any other place. Sardinia is another thing: charming space around and away from travel, nothing done, nothing definite. It's like freedom itself
(David Herbert Lawrence, from Sea and Sardinia, 1921)
The Mediterranean climate is typical of most of Sardinia, except some inland areas marked by a climate more rigid. Along the coastal areas, where most of the population, you have mild winters, thanks to the presence of the sea, with rare snowfalls, approximately every 5-10 years and hardly ever temperature below freezing, and hot and dry summers; low humidity and the lack of afa, as the considerable wind, can easily withstand the high summer temperatures, normally capable of reaching the 35-40°C.
The mountains of Gennargentu often in the winter snows and temperatures drop below freezing. In summer the climate is cool, especially during the night and rarely hot for many consecutive days.
Sardinia, Wikipedia (on date 2 november 2007).
