
The island’s northern gateway, a Catalan stronghold on Italian soil, a maze of cobbled alleyways with narrow turns overlooking majestic coral-red sunsets, which here is art and tradition: in a word, Alghero.
Embraced by the massive bastions of the port and dotted with red roofs, Alghero’s origins date back to the 12th century, when the Dorias, a wealthy Genoese merchant family, made it one of the most important commercial ports in the Mediterranean, building walls capable of defending merchant ships from Saracen and Pisan attacks.
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