In the heart of Barbagia, in the center of Sardinia, Nuoro offers the visitor the opportunity to deal with the most traditional ancient and authentic on the island. Starting with the local language, the Nuorese, the Romance language closest to Latin, and without forgetting that the correct pronunciation of the name of the city is Nùoro (from ancient denomination of Nugor) and not Nuòro, as you often hear say above all outside Sardinia. So what do you see in the capital of Barbagia? Here are four good reasons to take on the journey inside the island.

1) Nuoro hosts the largest and most important ethnographic museum in Sardinia, the Museum of Sardinian Life and Popular Traditions ; the museum, in which clothes, jewelry, textiles, furniture, musical instruments, household and work utensils are exhibited, looks like a sort of imaginary village in which they are represented all types of architecture of Sardinia,

2) To visit the cathedral dedicated to S. Maria della Neve; built in style neoclassical in the first half of the nineteenth century, the church is characterized by a façade with four imposing columns and framed by two identical bell towers, covered by a small dome;

3) The city is considered the cultural homeland of the Sardinians; in fact, the writer Grazia Deledda, the first woman in Italy was born to win the Nobel Prize in 1926; in the city you can visit his birthplace, follow a path through many of the places described in his novels and stop in front of his tomb in the seventeenth-century church of Our Lady of Solitude;

4) Not to be missed, in the last week of August, the Festival of the Redeemer; the feast is celebrated , as well as with religious events that culminate on 29 August, also with great folklore shows, parades of traditional costumes and Sardinian dances.