Alghero

Alghero

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Alghero · L'Alguer — the Catalan corner of Sardinia. Red coral, 16th-century sea walls, a Catalan dialect still spoken today. My hobby project on the Coral Riviera → https://alghero.travel/en Instagram -> https://www.instagram.com/alghero.travel/

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🎉 500 followers on Instagram! Thank you to everyone following our journey through Alghero and the northwest coast of Sardinia! If you're on Instagram too, come join us for more photos, videos and inspiration. ❤️ Follow us here: www.instagram.com/alghero.trav... #Alghero #Sardinia #VisitSardinia

🇬🇧 Torre del Porticciolo, built in the late 1500s by Alghero's coral fishermen — then the surf at Porto Ferro. More trips around Alghero: alghero.travel/en/day-trips #Alghero #Sardinia #TorreDelPorticciolo #Travel 🎵 "African Fella" — Cumbia Deli

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🌱 Day 2 of the 2nd #FERRO_GAMeeting moved beyond the meeting room - directly into the field. 🌊 We visited Lake Ormstrup, where Theis Kragh from Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark shared insights into the lake's restoration efforts and the challenges encountered along the way.

🇬🇧 The WRC season finale was based in Alghero. Solberg won the rally; Elfyn Evans became the first world rally champion from Wales. 🇮🇹 Rally Italia Sardegna: ultima prova del Mondiale, base ad Alghero. #Alghero #WRC 🎵 "Is This Really Happening?" — TrackTribe (YouTube Audio Library)

🇬🇧 Alghero's old town is full of small shops: souvenirs, local products, fashion, and coral workshops still at work. 🇮🇹 Nel centro storico tante piccole botteghe: souvenir, prodotti locali, moda e laboratori del corallo. #Alghero #Sardinia #Travel 📸 Jürgen Scheeff / Unsplash

🇬🇧 Beaches near Alghero, part 1: San Giovanni, Maria Pia and Las Tronas — all within 4 km of the walls. 🇮🇹 Spiagge vicino ad Alghero, parte 1: tutte a meno di 4 km dalle mura. #Alghero #Sardinia 🎵 "Would It Matter" — Rose Campbell (YouTube Audio Library)

A short history of Alghero alghero.travel/en/history La storia di Alghero in breve alghero.travel/it/history #Alghero #AlgheroSardegna #Sardegna #SardegnaItalia #StoriaDiAlghero #VisitAlghero #VisitSardinia #Sardinia #LAlguer #Catalano #SardegnaTurismo

alghero.travelHistory of Alghero — Catalan since 1354The Doria of Genoa founded Alghero in the 12th century; the Crown of Aragon took it in 1354 and resettled it from Catalonia. Algherese is still spoken today.

🇬🇧 Alghero by bike, this morning. 11.5 km of separated cycle path, flat the whole way. 🇮🇹 Alghero in bici, stamattina. 11,5 km di ciclabile separata, tutta piatta. #Alghero #Sardinia #Cycling #ByBike 🎵 "Would It Matter" by Rose Campbell (YouTube Audio Library)

🇬🇧 Villa Las Tronas, Alghero: built around 1880 on the ruins of a watchtower, royal summer residence until the 1940s, a hotel since 1961. 🇮🇹 Residenza estiva di Vittorio Emanuele III, hotel dal 1961. #Alghero #Sardinia #Travel #Hotel 📸 MICHOFF / Pixabay

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🇬🇧 Grotta di Nereo, under Capo Caccia: the biggest submerged sea cave in the Mediterranean, 15–30 m down. One of fourteen things to do on the water here. 🇮🇹 La più grande grotta marina sommersa del Mediterraneo. #Alghero #Sardinia #Watersports Full article: alghero.travel/water-sports

🇬🇧 Alghero's 16th-century sea walls stopped being a fortress by decree in 1867. Today the ramparts carry restaurant tables. 🇮🇹 Dal 1867 non più fortezza: oggi sui bastioni ci sono i tavoli dei ristoranti. #Alghero #Sardinia #Restaurant alghero.travel 📸 Michele Lana / Unsplash

🇬🇧 A trebuchet on Alghero's sea walls — looks medieval, but it went up in March 2011: a full-scale replica by local craftsmen. 🇮🇹 Sembra medievale, è del marzo 2011. alghero.travel/en/history #Alghero #Sardinia #Italy #Holidays #History 📸 Petra Nesti / Pexels

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🇬🇧 25 April 1867: a decree ended Alghero's status as a fortress. The landward walls came down — the sea bastions became this promenade. 🇮🇹 Le mura di terra cadono, i bastioni restano. #Alghero #Sardinia alghero.travel

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🇬🇧 The Giro d'Italia started in Alghero, 5 May 2017 — 206 km to Olbia. The local classic: the SP 105 coast road to Bosa, 45 km above the sea. 🇮🇹 Il Giro è partito da Alghero nel 2017. #Alghero #Sardinia

🇬🇧 A festival year around Alghero: bonfires on 16 January, jazz from June, boats up the Temo at Bosa, thirteen 400 kg columns through Sassari on 14 August, fireworks for New Year. 🇮🇹 Un anno di feste: falò, jazz, il Temo, i Candelieri. #Alghero #Sardinia #Music #Travel #Holidays #Festivals #Italy

🇬🇧 Alghero's San Michele looks baroque, but its majolica dome is from around 1950 — Antoni Simon Mossa with Filippo Figari. 🇮🇹 San Michele sembra barocca, ma la cupola in maiolica è del 1950 circa. #Alghero #Sardinia 📸 Gianni Careddu / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

🇬🇧 Second-to-last Sunday of May, Sassari, 37 km from Alghero: ~3,500 people in traditional dress. Not a religious feast — staged for a royal visit, revived in 1951. 🇮🇹 Penultima domenica di maggio a Sassari: ~3.500 persone in abito tradizionale, dal 1951. #Alghero #Sardinia #Festival #Travel

🇬🇧 Five beaches on the Riviera del Corallo: 3 km of town sand, the cove under Villa Las Tronas, dunes at Maria Pia, snorkelling at Lazzaretto, surf at Porto Ferro. 🇮🇹 Cinque spiagge: dal Lido alle calette del Lazzaretto, fino a Porto Ferro. #Alghero #Sardinia #Beaches #Italy #Travel

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Cristiano Ronaldo's Bombardier Global Express XRS just closed a 13h 48m Pulau Sudong Military Airstrip → Alghero-Fertilia run. SG-0002 → LIEA Aggregated from public ADS-B. The full path on celebplanes.com. #privatejet #aviation #flighttracking

A fiery inferno on the island: three massive blazes are consuming hundreds of hectares of land, with fires reported in Alghero, Padru, and the Cagliari area. It is a busy afternoon for the regional firefighting service, currently engaged on three different fronts between…

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🇬🇧 Neptune's Grotto, under Capo Caccia: 654 steps down the Escala del Cabirol, opened 1954. Before it, the only way in was by boat. 🇮🇹 Grotta di Nettuno: 654 gradini dell'Escala del Cabirol, dal 1954. Prima si arrivava solo in barca. #Alghero #Sardinia #GrottaDiNettuno 📸 Jürgen Scheeff / Unsplash

🇬🇧 La Pelosa, an hour north of Alghero. The tower on the islet is a Spanish watchtower — a document from 1578 already lists it as needing repairs. 🇮🇹 La Pelosa, un'ora da Alghero: la torre spagnola era già da riparare nel 1578. #Alghero #Sardinia #LaPelosa #Beach 📸 Roberto Baciga / Pexels

🇬🇧 Alghero eats Catalan: paella and aragosta alla catalana on the menus, Sardinian fregola with clams, and Torbato — a white grape grown almost nowhere else. 🇮🇹 Ad Alghero si mangia catalano: paella, fregola e Torbato. #Alghero #Sardinia #Food #Wine #Italy 📸 Wikimedia CC0 / Unsplash

🇬🇧 Alghero's big wheel, by the port every season since 2023: 36 cabins, ~45 m up, the whole Riviera del Corallo in one turn. 🇮🇹 La ruota panoramica al porto dal 2023: 36 cabine, circa 45 m, tutta la Riviera del Corallo in un giro. #Alghero #Sardinia #Travel #Photography #Italy 📸 Efem Efre / Pexels

🇬🇧 Alghero has its own white grape: Torbato, brought over in the Catalan-Aragonese centuries, once shipped to the kings of Aragon, today grown almost nowhere else. 🇮🇹 Il Torbato: il bianco che si coltiva quasi solo ad Alghero. #Alghero #Sardinia #FoodAndWine #Wine 📸 Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA)

🇬🇧 Around Alghero: diving the Grotta di Nereo under Capo Caccia, sea-cliff climbing, wing foiling in the gulf, and cycling the coast road to Bosa. 🇮🇹 Ad Alghero: immersioni, arrampicata, wing foil e ciclismo sulla costa. #Alghero #Sardinia #OutdoorSports #VisitSardinia #Italy #Travel

🇬🇧 Off Capo Caccia, near Alghero, lies one of the Mediterranean's classic dive grounds — the Grotta di Nereo sea cave and the red coral of the Riviera del Corallo. 🇮🇹 Le acque di Capo Caccia, un classico delle immersioni. #Alghero #Sardinia 📸 Rep. photo by Michaela Yos Niki Loxa / Wikimedia Commons