Nuoro (
Nùgoro, in the ancient Nuoro's dialect), is a town in central
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,
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, located at the slopes of
Mount OrtobeneMount Ortobene is a mountain in the province of Nuoro, in central Sardinia, Italy, close to the town of Nuoro....
. The capital of the
province of NuoroNuoro is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Nuoro.It has an area of 3,934 km², and a total population of 164,260 . There are 52 comuni in the province, the largest of which are Nuoro , Macomer , and Siniscola...
, it is the administrative center of one
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's less-densely populated areas. Nearby is the Monte Ortobene.
Overlying the central mountains in a panoramic position, Nuoro is a typical Sardinian town.
http://www.sardegna.com/en/nuoro It is the hometown of
Grazia DeleddaGrazia Deledda was a Sardinian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.-Biography:...
, who won the
Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
in 1926.
The area of the
Province of NuoroNuoro is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Nuoro.It has an area of 3,934 km², and a total population of 164,260 . There are 52 comuni in the province, the largest of which are Nuoro , Macomer , and Siniscola...
is known for its concentration of centenarians and supercentenarians, including
Antonio ToddeAntonio Todde was the oldest documented man in the world in 2001–2002 until he died at age 112 years 346 days, after the death of American John Painter, and briefly the oldest person in the history of Italy....
, the world's oldest living man from March 5, 2001 to January 3, 2002.
History
The earliest traces of human settlements in the Nuoro area, the so-called
Domus de janasDomus de Janas are a type of pre-historic chamber tombs found in the Mediterranean area, but typically in Sardinia...
, 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
NuragheThe nuraghe is the main type of megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, dating back before 1000 BC. Today it has come to be the symbol of Sardinia and its distinctive culture...
civilization from 1500 BC, including more than 30 nuraghe sites, such has that at Tanca Manna with about 800 huts. The area, lying on the road from Karalis (Cagliari) to
Ulbia (
OlbiaOlbia , is a town of approximately 54,000 inhabitants in northeastern Sardinia , in the Gallura sub-region....
) was also colonized by the
RomansAncient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea, it became one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
.
After the fall of the
Western Roman EmpireThe Western Roman Empire was the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
, Sardinia was held by the
VandalsThe Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The Goth Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under .The Vandals are perhaps...
and then by the Byzantines. According to the letters of
Pope Gregory IPope St. Gregory I , better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death...
, in the island co-existed a Romanized and Christianized area (that of the
provinciales) with, in the interior, Pagan cultures (
Gens Barbaricina). As the Byzantine control waned, the Guidicati appeared. A small village known as
Nugor appears on a medieval map from 1147. In the two following centuries it grew to more than 1000 inhabitants. Nuoro remained a town of average importance under the Aragonese and Spanish domination of Sardinia, until famine and plague struck it in the late 17th century. After the annexion to the Piedmont in the
Kingdom of SardiniaKingdom of Sardinia, also known as Piedmont-Sardinia or Sardinia-Piedmont, was the name given to the possessions of the House of Savoy in 1720, when the crown of Sardinia was awarded by the Treaty of London to Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy to compensate him for the loss of the crown of Sicily to...
, the town became the administrative center of the area, obtaining the title of city in 1836; in the 19th century it was one of the main cultural centers of Sardinia.
Transportation
The town is connected to Sassari and Cagliari by the SS 131, and to Oblia by the 131 DCN State Road. It has a station on the
Ferrovie della SardegnaThe Ferrovie della Sardegna , know also as ARST Gestione FdS and with the acronym FdS, is the regional railway network, in the island of Sardinia, Italy.
...
railroad to the Marghine area and
MacomerMacomer is a town and comune of Sardinia in the province of Nuoro. It is situated on the southern ascent to the central plateau of this part of Sardinia, at the junction of narrow-gauge lines branching from the main railroad line running east to Nuoro and west to Bosa.The district, especially...
.
Public transport in the city is held by ATP Nuoro.
Notable people
- Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda was a Sardinian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.-Biography:...
, writer
- Salvatore Satta, scholar of Jurisprudence
- Giovanni Pintori, graphic artist
- Maria Giacobbe, writer and essayist (in Italian and in Danish)
- Franco Oppo, composer
- Costantino Nivola
Costantino Nivola was an Italian sculptor. He is the grandfather of actor Alessandro Nivola.- Birth and upbringing :...
, (from OraniOrani is a comune in the Province of Nuoro in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 110 km north of Cagliari and about 15 km southwest of Nuoro. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,113 and an area of 130.8 km².Orani borders the following municipalities: Benetutti,...
), sculptor
- Gianfranco Zola
Gianfranco Zola, OBE, Ufficiale OMRI is a retired Italian footballer and, since 11 September 2008, manager of English Premier League side West Ham United, having been assistant coach of the Italy national under-21 football team under Pierluigi Casiraghi...
, (from OlienaOliena is a town in the province of Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy. It is located at around .It is the birthplace of former Chelsea FC and Cagliari player Gianfranco Zola.
...
), soccer player