Nuoro

Nùoro listen (help·info) (Nùgoro, in the ancient Nuoro's dialect), is a town and comune in central Sardinia, Italy, located at the slopes of Mount Ortobene. Overlying the central mountains in a panoramic position, Nuoro is a typical Sardinian town.. It is considered the Sardinian Culture's capital and hosts some of the most important museums of the island. Nuoro was the hometown of Grazia Deledda, the first (and only) Italian woman to win the Nob... more

Nùoro listen (help·info) (Nùgoro, in the ancient Nuoro's dialect), is a town and comune in central Sardinia, Italy, located at the slopes of Mount Ortobene. Overlying the central mountains in a panoramic position, Nuoro is a typical Sardinian town.. It is considered the Sardinian Culture's capital and hosts some of the most important museums of the island. Nuoro was the hometown of Grazia Deledda, the first (and only) Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1926. The area of the Province of Nuoro, one of the Europe's less-densely populated areas, is known for its concentration of centenarians and supercentenarians, including Antonio Todde, the world's oldest living man from March 5, 2001 to January 3, 2002. The earliest traces of human settlements in the Nuoro area, the so-called Domus de janas, date back to the 3rd millennium BC. Fragments of Ozieri culture ceramics have been dated to c. 3500 BC. The province of Nuoro was a center of the Nuraghe civilization from... less