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Sardinian landscape with a coastal road, mountain ridges and an inland town, illustrating the distance between sea and inner valleys
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Sardinia: Why It Feels Like an Island Within an Island

Sardinia has been linked to the Mediterranean for millennia, yet mountains, plateaux and valleys have made its interior a collection of distinct territories. Its identity grows from the meeting of outward connections and local distance: port cities, mountain towns, languages, economies and memories ...
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A compact historic Italian village on a hill, with stone houses, a tower, fields below and a winding access road
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Why Italy Has So Many Historic Villages: Geography, Defence and Rural Depopulation

Italy’s historic villages were not built to look picturesque. They emerged from geography, security, farming, medieval power and routes of communication. Many lost residents during the twentieth century; today some are seeking a new role between tourism, distant services and environmental vulnerabil...
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