Nuoro

Nuoro (Nùgoro, in the ancient Nuoro's dialect), is a town and comune in central Sardinia, Italy, located at the slopes of Mount Ortobene. The capital of the province of Nuoro, it is the administrative center of one Europe's less-densely populated areas. Nearby is the Monte Ortobene. Overlying the central mountains in a panoramic position, Nuoro is a typical Sardinian town. It is the hometown of Grazia Deledda, who won the Nobel Prize in Literatur... more

Nuoro (Nùgoro, in the ancient Nuoro's dialect), is a town and comune in central Sardinia, Italy, located at the slopes of Mount Ortobene. The capital of the province of Nuoro, it is the administrative center of one Europe's less-densely populated areas. Nearby is the Monte Ortobene. Overlying the central mountains in a panoramic position, Nuoro is a typical Sardinian town. It is the hometown of Grazia Deledda, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926. The area of the Province of Nuoro 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 1500 BC, including more than 30 nuraghe sites, such has that at Tanca Manna... less