In the heart of the Capo Caccia limestone promontory, over millions of years the seawater and rainwater have produced extraordinary erosion phenomena creating the immense cavern known as the Grotta di Nettuno. It has always been part of the Alghero
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Porto Conte, an important area of geological, archaeological and zoological interest, in 1999 became a Regional Natural Park. Situated immediately to the north of Alghero, the Park, enclosing an immense environmental patrimony, begins with the Calic ...
For centuries the strong point of the local economy, the craftwork of Alghero
is based above all on the working of coral. Used for necklaces from the most ancient times, the "red gold ", found in abundance on the seabed near Alghero, nowadays is gat...
The Church of S. Francesco, one of the oldest churches in Alghero
, is, together with the annexed monastery and magnificent cloister, one of the most representative examples of Catalan culture on the island. Built by the Conventual Franciscans in the...
The cathedral of Alghero, dedicated to Santa Maria, was erected in the sixteenth-century after being granted the bishopric. Built in late Gothic-Catalan style on the remains of a previous church, though only the spacious presbytery remains of the ori...