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Cala Burantino
Cala Burantino (; ) is a cove on the northwest coast of Sardinia. It is located 3.8 nautical miles, or about 8 km overland, south of the historic town of Alghero. The surrounding hinterland is almost entirely uninhabited and boasts Mediterranean flora, which is home to various species of wild plants and animals. Beaches and coves Cala Burantino boasts two beaches and two small coves, referred to as "''caletta''" () in Italian: Caletta Carla and Caletta Arcamyrturs. The sea bed is sandy. Burantino Beach The beach is composed of medium-grain limestone sand and is bordered by a wall of sandstone and volcanic rock. The seabed is sandy and shallow, gradually sloping into deeper waters. Due to its geographical position, visitors can witness the sun setting into the sea, occasionally showcasing the rare phenomenon of the green flash. Villa Wanda Beach The small cove is encircled by tall sandstone cliffs. The seabed near the shore is shallow but deepens rapidly. Exposed to st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algherese Dialect
Algherese or Alguerese (endonym and exonym, autonym: ) is the Variety (linguistics), variety of Catalan language, Catalan spoken in the city of Alghero ( in Catalan), in the northwest of Sardinia, Italy. The dialect has its roots in 1372, when Catalan-speaking colonists were allowed to repopulate Alghero and expel the Sardinians, native population, after several revolts. Catalan was replaced as the official language by Spanish language, Spanish, then by Italian language, Italian in the mid-18th century. Today the language has semi-official recognition alongside Italian. Studies give an approximate number of 20,000 to 30,000 native speakers of the language worldwide. In communities where Algherese is spoken, Italian language, Italian and Logudorese dialect, Logudorese Sardinian language, Sardinian are often used as well. History Algherese is a regional dialect spoken by anywhere from 20,000 to 30,000 individuals, most of whom reside in the town of Alghero, located in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and 16.45 km south of the French island of Corsica. It has over 1.5 million inhabitants as of 2025. It is one of the five Italian regions with some degree of Autonomous administrative division, domestic autonomy being granted by a Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, special statute. Its official name, Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is bilingual in Italian language, Italian and Sardinian language, Sardinian: / . It is divided into four provinces of Italy, provinces and a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city. Its capital (and largest city) is Cagliari. Sardinia's indigenous language and Algherese dialect, Algherese Catalan language, Catalan are referred to by both the regional and national law as two of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alghero
Alghero (; ; ; ) is a city of about 45,000 inhabitants in the Italian province of Sassari in the north west of the island of Sardinia, next to the Mediterranean Sea. The city's name comes from ''Aleguerium'', which is a mediaeval Latin word meaning "stagnation of algae" (''Posidonia oceanica''). The population is noted for having retained the language of the Crown of Aragon rulers from the end of the Middle Ages, when Sardinia was part of the Crown of Aragon; hence, Algherese dialect, Algherese (the Catalan dialect spoken there) is officially recognized as a minority language. Alghero is the third university center in the island, coming after Cagliari and Sassari. It hosts the headquarters of the University of Sassari, Università degli Studi di Sassari's Architecture and Design department. History The area of today's Alghero has been settled since pre-historic times. The Ozieri culture was present here in the 4th millennium BC (Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju), while the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thumbnail
Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or videos, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. In the age of digital images, visual search engines and image-organizing programs normally use thumbnails, as do most modern operating systems or desktop environments, such as Microsoft Windows, macOS, KDE (Linux) and GNOME (Linux). On web pages, they also avoid the need to download larger files unnecessarily. Implementation Thumbnails are ideally implemented on web pages as separate, smaller copies of the original image, in part because one purpose of a thumbnail image on a web page is to reduce bandwidth and download time. Some web designers produce thumbnails with HTML or client-side scripting that makes the user's browser shrink the picture, rather than use a smaller copy of the image. This results in no saved bandwidth, and the visual quality of browser resizing is usually less than ideal. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Flash
The green flash and green ray are meteorological optical phenomena that sometimes occur transiently around the moment of sunset or sunrise. When the conditions are right, a distinct green spot is briefly visible above the Sun's upper limb; the green appearance usually lasts for no more than two seconds. Rarely, the green flash can resemble a green ray shooting up from the sunset or sunrise point. Green flashes occur because the Earth's atmosphere can cause the light from the Sun to separate, via wavelength varying refraction, into different colors. Green flashes are a group of similar phenomena that stem from slightly different causes, and therefore, some types of green flashes are more common than others. Observing Green flashes may be observed from any altitude. They usually are seen at an unobstructed horizon, such as over the ocean, but are possible over cloud tops and mountain tops as well. They may occur at any latitude, although at the equator, the flash rarely l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mistral (wind)
The mistral (; ; Corsican: ''maestrale''; ; ; ; ) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean. It produces sustained winds averaging 31 miles an hour (50 kilometres an hour), sometimes reaching 60 miles an hour (100 kilometres an hour). It can last for several days. Periods of the wind exceeding for more than sixty-five hours have been reported. It is most common in the winter and spring, and strongest in the transition between the two seasons. It affects the northeast of the plain of Languedoc and Provence to the east of Toulon, where it is felt as a strong west wind. It has a major influence all along the Mediterranean coast of France, and often causes sudden storms in the Mediterranean between Corsica and the Balearic Islands. The name ''mistral'' comes from the Languedoc dialect of the Occitan and means "masterly". The same wind is called ''mistrau'' in the Provençal variant of Occitan, ''me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cava Di Pietra Bolantì
Cava may refer to: People Sports * José Luis Cabrera Cava (born 1982), a Spanish retired footballer * Michela Cava, a Canadian-born women's ice hockey player * Nicholas la Cava (born 1986), an American rower * Tony LaCava (1961), an American professional baseball executive * Zoran Dimitrijević (called Čav), (1962–2006), a Serbian professional footballer Other people * Florinda la Cava, legendary Spaniard who played a central role in the downfall of the Visigothic kingdom in 711 * John Cavas (1910–1993), a stuntman and actor in Hindi movies * Paul Cava (born 1949), an American artist photographer * Robert Cava (born 1951), an American solid-state chemist * Stephanie LaCava, an American writer * Osvaldo Cavandoli or Cava (1920–2007), an Italian cartoonist Places Italy * Cava de' Tirreni, town and municipality of the province of Salerno, Italy * Cava Manara, municipality of the province of Pavia, Italy * Cava del Rivettazzo, a Sicel necropolis in Solarino, Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
