Alghero Old Town

Name: Alghero Old Town
Address: Alghero Province de Sassari, Italie, Alghero
Rating: 5.0000

5/5 (13 reviews)

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Carlos Olmo

A beautiful place

The city of Alghero on the northwest coast of Sardinia has a turbulent history of conquest and attacks, and so the walls are proof at one point in time the city was completely surrounded. Nowadays the side facing the sea is well preserved. It has about 45,000 inhabitants and is colloquially called "Balçaruneta" (Barceloneta in Catalan), as those who settled there were Catalans from Barcelona. l'Alghero is it's official name still today, as old Catalan is still spoken and has been maintained for centuries . The old town of Alghero is of great beauty, with architecture and urban planning similar to the medieval cities under the rule of Aragon.

Particularly noteworthy are the walls, circular defensive towers, the gothic "palazzos" like Ferrera, del Pou Salit (the Pozzo salato), Peretti, Guillot, and Neoclassicals like Palazzo Lavagna, Civico, Balata and Simon. The churches are also very beautiful, and among many should be noted the Cathedral of St. Mary from the sixteenth century, Our Lady of Mount Carmel from the seventeenth, the church of San Francesco with a beautiful cloister from the fourteenth century, as well as my favourite, the church of San Michele, with a beautiful polychrome dome.