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The Towns<br />
…The town of Cagliari offers to the view of those arriving from the sea an<br />
aspect pleasant and mighty, despite the white-yellowish colour of the<br />
limestone rock, and a kind of African aridity that gives it a particular<br />
character…<br />
(Alberto Della Marmora, Itinerary of the Island of Sardinia, 1860)<br />
Cagliari’s panorama<br />
Cagliari<br />
Cagliari (164,249 inhabitants) is the largest city of Sardinia. About one third<br />
of the total one and a half million inhabitants on the Island live in its outskirts<br />
and in the communalities within its province. Located at the southernmost tip<br />
of the Campidano plains, at the centre of the namesake gulf and featuring<br />
important wetlands both in the east and in the west, Cagliari spreads along<br />
the coast and on its nine limestone hills. Some of these are of significant<br />
landscape and naturalistic value, such as Mount Urpinu (the hill of San<br />
Michele with its mediaeval castle) and the promontory of Capo Sant’Elia<br />
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