Ngoro is the local name of Nuoro, the main town of central Sardinia, Italy. Made a province during Fascism, it is the administrative center of one of Europe’s less densely populated areas.
Laying over the central mountains, in a panoramic position, Nuoro is the most typical Sardinian town, the one where Sardinians feel their roots lie.
It was called the Sardinian Athens, due to the huge number of poets, writers and intellectuals that here took part in a quite original culture.
Scientists in many disciplines, and artists like sculptor Francesco Ciusa Romagna (whose “La Madre dell’Ucciso” = the mother of the killed, is now in Rome at National Modern Gallery) or xylographers like prof. Remo Branca.
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Called "Olbia" in the Roman age, "Civita" in the Middle Ages (Giudicati period) and "Terranova Pausania" before the 1940s, Olbia was again the official name of the town after the period of Fascism. It is the economic centre of this part of the island (commercial centres, food industry) and is very close to the famous Costa Smeralda tourist area. It will soon become an administrative capital (together with Tempio Pausania) of the new province of
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Its origins are very ancient, and it was the main town of the Giudicato of Arborea, an independent district self-governed from the 10th to 14th century.
It has a poor economy, largely focused on fishing.
