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    Default Sardinians speak often putting the verb at the end of sentences

    The other language where happens the same is the latin. Sardinian is considered by many linguists the most conservative among the romance languages and the closest one to the ancient latin.



    As said in the previous post Groundskeeper Willie in Italy is dubbled with a Sardinian accent and not Scottish and obviously he speaks often putting the verb at the end of phrases as happened in this clip

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    Default Sardinia is the italian region with the highest forest surface and the the highest absorption of CO2


    Map by the Infc (Inventario nazionale delle foreste e dei serbatoi di carbonio)


    The 50% of the territory is covered by forested areas, 1,213,250 hectares (12,132 km2).

    The Corpo forestale e di vigilanza ambientale della Regione Sarda is the Sardinian Forestry Corps, that is autonomous by the italian forestry corps.

    Sardinia is the Italian region mostly affected by forest fires during the summer.

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    Default Sardinia's second largest city: fourth town in the world with the best climate


    Panoramic view of Sassari


    According to a study published by Weatherwise in 2014 the city of Sassari (130,000 inhabitants) has one of the best weather in the world.


    The 10 Best Weather Places in the World

    "Located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea on northern Sardinia, Sassari experiences some of the most comfortable weather on the planet. The average annual daily high temperature for Sassari is 66.4°F, and the mean annual daily low temperature is 53°F. August, the warmest month, sees an average daily high temperature of 82°F and a mean nighttime low of 66°F. The coldest month in Sassari, January, experiences a daily average high of 54°F and a nighttime low of 43°F. Just under 27.5 inches of rain fall on Sassari annually, on average, with most falling from fall through early spring"

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    Default Casu marzu



    Casu marzu (also called casu modde, casu cundídu, casu frŕzigu in Sardinian language, or in Italian formaggio marcio, "rotten cheese") is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese, notable for containing live insect larvae.

    Although found mostly in Sardinia, Italy, the cheese is also found in Corsica, France (former Italian island until 1768) where the local dialect is very similar to Italian. The name of the cheese is pronounced the same in Corsica and Sardinia, but is spelled "casgiu merzu" in Corsican language.

    Derived from Pecorino, casu marzu goes beyond typical fermentation to a stage most would consider decomposition, brought about by the digestive action of the larvae of the cheese fly Piophila casei. These larvae are deliberately introduced to the cheese, promoting an advanced level of fermentation and breaking down of the cheese's fats. The texture of the cheese becomes very soft, with some liquid (called lagrima, from Sardinian language for "tear") seeping out. The larvae themselves appear as translucent white worms, about 8 millimetres (0.3 in) long.



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    Because of European Union food hygiene-health regulations, the cheese was outlawed for a time, and offenders faced heavy fines. However, it remained possible to acquire casu marzu on the black market, where it could sell for double the price of an ordinary block of pecorino cheese.

    Attempts have been made to circumvent the EU ban by having casu marzu declared a "traditional" food (it has been made in the same manner for more than 25 years, and it is therefore exempt from ordinary food hygiene regulations). The traditional method of making the cheese is explained by an official paper of the local government.

    A cooperation between sheep farmers and researchers of the University of Sassari developed a hygienic method of production, in 2005, aiming to allow the legal selling of the cheese. However, as of November 2013, ‘casu marzu’ or ‘casu frazigu’ is not listed as a recognized traditional food in the EU Database of Origin and Registration or in the list of the Italian Ministero delle politiche agricole. Therefore, the legal status of casu marzu in the EU remains questionable.


    Other regional variations

    Similar milk cheeses notable for containing living insect larvae are produced in several Italian regions and in Corsica, France.

    Casgiu merzu in Corsica, France
    Marcetto or cace fraceche in Abruzzo
    Gorgonzola co-i grilli in Liguria
    Salterello in Friuli Venezia Giulia
    Furmai nis (formaggio Nisso) in Emilia Romagna
    Frmag punt in Apulia
    Casu du quagghiu in Calabria
    Cacie' Punt (formaggio punto) in Molise

    There are several other regional varieties of cheese with fly larvae in Europe. For example, goat-milk cheese is left to the open air until Piophila casei larvae are naturally laid in the cheese. Then it is aged in white wine, with grapes and honey, preventing the larvae from emerging, giving the cheese a strong flavour. In addition, other regions in Europe have traditional cheeses that rely on live arthropods for ageing and flavouring, such as the German Milbenkäse and French Mimolette, both of which rely on cheese mites.

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    Default Sardinia boasts the highest consumption of beer per capita in Italy



    Sardinia boasts the highest consumption of beer per capita in Italy, 60 liters per person per year, almost double the national average.

    The Province of Nuoro has the highest consumption with an average of 100 liters per capita.

    Ichnusa is the most known brand of beer produced in Sardinia.

    The discovery of jars containing hops, in some island archaeological sites, evidence that beer was produced since the copper age.

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    Default Sardonic Smile

    The sardonic smile or sardonicism (from Latin: Risus sardonicus) is the expression of derision, cynicism or skeptical humor variously through comment, gesture or writing. This term is originated and associated with Sardinia and its people and their ancient customs.

    In Theory and History of Folklore, Vladimir Propp discusses alleged examples of ritual laughter accompanying death and killing, all involving groups. These he characterized as sardonic laughter.

    Among the very ancient people of Sardinia, who were called Sardi or Sardoni, it was customary to kill old people. While killing their old people, the Sardi laughed loudly. This is the origin of notorious sardonic laughter (Eugen Fehrle, 1930), now meaning cruel, malicious laughter. In light of our findings things begin to look different. Laughter accompanies the passage from death to life; it creates life and accompanies birth. Consequently, laughter accompanying killing transforms death into a new birth, nullifies murder as such, and is an act of piety that transforms death into a new life.

    According to other theories the sardonic smile was used by the ancient sardinians (Nuragic people) to intimidate and taunt the enemies before the battle.

    A toxic plant called water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata) is the candidate for the "sardonic herb," which was a neurotoxic plant used for the ritual killing of elderly people in pre-Roman Sardinia. When these people were unable to support themselves, they were intoxicated with this herb and then dropped from a high rock or beaten to death.

    Today sardonic smile is a term used in medicine to explain a grin from spasm of the facial muscles associated with tetanus and other poisonings.

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    Default Two japanese animes are set in Sardinia

    Campione!






    Campione! (カンピオーネ! Kanpiōne!?, lit., "Champion!") is a Japanese light novel series written by Jō Taketsuki and illustrated by Sikorski. It has been published by Shueisha in their Super Dash Bunko imprint since September 2008. It has been adapted into a manga series published in Shueisha's Super Dash & Go!. A 13-episode anime television series, produced by Diomedéa aired in Japan on AT-X and Tokyo MX beginning in July 2012 and ended in September 2012. Sentai Filmworks released an English dub of the TV series in North America. The novel's story focuses on Godou Kusanagi, a retired baseball player, as he becomes a Campione after killing the god of war, Verethragna.


    Tottoi - The secret of the Seals





    Tottoi is an anime directed by Norifumi Kiozumi, in 1992, and produced by the Nippon Animation.
    It tells the story of a group of boys that save from the poachers the last two specimens of Mediterranean Monk Seals, living on the Sardinian east coasts. The cartoon is set mainly in Cala Gonone, and in the Bue Marino's Grottos.

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    Default The first italian anthem was in sardinian language

    The first italian anthem after the unification happened in 1861 was that one of the Kingdom of Sardinia, called Himnu Sardu Nationale (Sardinian National Anthem) or Cunservet Deus su Re (God protect the King), written in 1843.

    Today this anthem is played in official occasions very rarely, for example when a sardinian is elected president of the italian republic.













    Lyrics in Sardinian Language:


    Salvet su Regnu Sardu
    Et gloria a s'istendardu
    Cuncedat de su Re!
    chi manchet in nois s'animu
    chi languat su valore
    Pro fortza o pro terrore
    Non apas suspetu, o Re.
    Cunservet Deus su Re...Unu o omni chentu intrepidos
    A ferru et a mitralia
    In vallu e in muralia
    amus andare o Re.
    Cunservet Deus su Re...Solu in sa morte cedere
    Soliat su Sardo antigu
    Né vivu a' s'inimigu
    deo m'apa a dare, o Re.
    Cunservet Deus su Re...De fidos et fort'omines
    Si fizos nos bantamus
    Bene nos provaramus
    Fizos issoro, o Re.
    Cunservet Deus su Re...De ti mostrare cupidu
    Sa fide sua, s'amore
    Sas venas in ardore
    Sentit su Sardu, o Re.
    Cunservet Deus su Re...Indica un adversariu
    E horrenda da su coro
    Scoppiat s'ira insoro
    A unu tou cinnu, o Re.
    Cunservet Deus su Re...Cumanda su chi piagati
    Si bene troppu duru,
    E nde sias tue seguru
    chi at a esser fatu, o Re.
    Cunservet Deus su Re...Sa forza qui mirabile
    Lŕ fuit a' su Romanu
    E innanti a s'Africanu
    Tue bideras, o Re.
    Conservet Deus su Re...Sa forza qui tant'atteros
    Podesit superare
    Facherat operare
    Uno tuo cinnu, o Re.
    Cunservet Deus su Re...Sos fidos fortes homines
    Abbaida tue contentu
    chi an a esse in onzi eventu
    cales jŕ fuint, o Re.
    Conservet Deus su Re
    Salvet su Regnu Sardu
    Et gloria a s'istendardu
    Concedat de su Re!

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    Default Sassari's Brigade

    Sassari's Brigade, is a unit of the Italian Army based on the island of Sardinia, divided in two infantry regiments. It was founded in 1915, when it was almost exclusively constituted by sardinian soldiers.


    The Sassari distinguished itself in combat during the World War I, becoming the highest decorated Italian unit during that conflict, earning one gold medal of military valor for each regiment plus other individual honours:




    The Brigade employed often in out of area operations and has served in Bosnia, Lebanon, Kosovo, Afghanistan and in Iraq.

    The brigade's hymn is sung in Sardinian language and it's entitled Dimonios.



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    Default Sardinia has its own aircraft carrier

    Meridiana, previously known as Alisarda, is an arline headquartered in Olbia, Sardinia. It operates domestic and even intercontinental flights.

    The company was set up with the name of Alisarda on March 29, 1963 by the prince Aga Khan IV with the aim of promoting luxury tourism in Sardinia. Scheduled flights commenced in 1964.

    In 1989, 35% of new stock was released to new shareholders to strengthen the company and the name Meridiana was adopted on 3 May 1991. The first international services were operated later in 1991 to Barcelona, Paris, London and Frankfurt.

    At the end of February 2010, Meridiana fly was inaugurated, the second largest carrier in Italy, from the merger of two air transport players: Eurofly, a company specialized in charter services to long haul holiday destinations and Meridiana, scheduled carrier with an extensive national and European network, with the primary objective of connecting the main Italian airports with the two largest islands Sardinia and Sicily.

    In October 2011 Meridiana Fly also completely acquired the properties of Air Italy, a chartered Italian carrier which definitively joined the group and now operates connections on behalf of Meridiana.

    On 16 January 2013 The Board of Directors of Meridiana S.p.A. acknowledged the agreement for the purchase by Meridiana S.p.A. of all the Meridiana fly ordinary shares held by the former shareholders of Air Italy Holding S.r.l. Today the group is run by Meridiana S.p.A. Holding which controls 89% of Meridiana fly including 100% of Air Italy, the remaining part is quoted to the Milan Stock Exchange but a tender offer has recently launched to delist the company.
    The Board of Directors of Meridiana fly named Board Member Roberto Scaramella, who is also the Aviation Director of AKFED, as the new CEO. A similar resolution has also been passed by the Board of Directors of Air Italy.[

    In April 2013, when Air Italy merged was completed, Meridiana Fly changed its brand name, back to the shorter Meridiana.
    At mid 2013, Meridiana offered different flights and leisure type destinations: with regard to the national and international short and medium haul scheduled flights, from the main Italian airports, it is possible to reach Sardinia (Olbia, Alghero and Cagliari), Sicily and Naples as well as major holiday destinations in the Mediterranean or in Egypt such as the Canary Islands, Greece and the Red Sea while the main long range destinations, mainly serviced from Milan Malpensa and/or Rome Fiumicino, are the Maldives, Mauritius, Kenya, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Cuba, Santo Domingo and Brazil.

    In 2014 the airline is continuing in its brand repositioning plan launching international flights to Moscow DME,London Gatwick, Kiev, Tel Aviv and Nice from Naples and to Bruxelles, Geneva, London LGW, Tel Aviv, Nice,Hamburg, Paris CDG, Moscow DME and Kiev from Olbia; reconfirming its leadership in Sardinia and its focus on Naples, Catania, Milan Linate and Verona airport for domestic italian flights. On May 16 it has been launched the new frequent flyer program called Meridiana Club in partnership with Avios, British Airways and Iberia.

    The airports of Olbia - Costa Smeralda, Cagliari, Catania, Naples and Verona with Milan and Rome are the airports of reference in Italy.

    Meridiana has a fleet of 27 aircraft consisting of 10 McDonnell Douglas MD82, 7 Airbus A320, 3 Boeing 737-700, 2 Boeing 737-300 WL, 2 Boeing 737-800, 1 Boeing 767-200, 2 Boeing 767-300.


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