Discover El Faro Hotel, Alghero, Sardinia
El Faro is a luxurious 4 stars Alghero Hotel. Alghero is an Italian city of 43,917 inhabitants in the province of Sassari, Sardinia. It is also known as Barceloneta, little Barcelona: the city has preserved the use of Catalan, which is one of the island languages that 22.4% of its inhabitants speak in Alghero, and it is recognized by the Italian and Autonomous Region of Sardinia as a minority language. This dialect is receiving protection through education programs and official use within the local authority. Alghero has also established an institutional delegation of the Government of Catalonia.
The city, one of the top fifth of the region of Sardinia for the number of inhabitants, is one of the gateways to the Island, thanks to the airport which is situated close to Fertilia. It is the capital of the Riviera del Corallo, whose name derives from the fact that the waters of its harbor is the largest amount of the precious red coral of the finest quality. By centuries has had a great economic and cultural importance, so that the branch of coral is placed in the arms of the city.
It is also the third campus of Sardinia (Cagliari and Sassari after) it is established the University for Foreigners of Alghero. There are then the Faculty of Architecture and some courses of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Sassari.
Alghero has a varied natural landscape, beaches with fine sand to the cliffs with jagged rocks or very flat: it is especially appreciated the view from the sea, as it captures the diversity of its coast mixed with vegetation, and the typical Mediterranean pine forest that often surround this Sardinia Hotel. It is very appreciated for its landscape is the promontory of Capo Caccia, with his now famous cliff-shaped sleeping giant that has become a symbol of Alghero, along with the precious red coral. The area of Capo Caccia Isola Piana and overlooking the Gulf of Porto Conte is the primary site of natural interest, which was recently formed the Natural Marine Protected Area of Capo Caccia - Isola Piana. The particular geological area is rich in caves and ravines, still largely unexplored. Right here insist the famous Caves of Neptune, that is accessible by sea or by land (through the popular Escala del Cabirol, of 656 steps), and that it has got a view of rooms and pools, like the giant pool, and stalactites and stalagmites of particular forms as the body. On the eastern side of Capo Caccia open overlooking the sea and the Cave of the embroidery and the Green Grotto, accessible only by sea, in the first gave rise to numerous concretions of lime embroidery, now it is completely devastated and the concretions are scattered throughout, while the second one can still see the remains of some graffiti from the Paleolithic, almost lost through vandalism and past attempts to “break “.
As administrative body is called the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and it is an autonomous region with special status as part of the Italian Republic. The special status enshrined in the Constitution of the Italian Republic in 1948, provides a broad cultural and administrative autonomy to the institutions of a region custodian of an ancient civilization with unique ethnic and linguistic characteristics.
Despite the insularity, the location in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea since ancient times has favored the interests of the various colonial powers, so facilitating trade relations and cultural but also a succession of various foreign domination. In modern times, many travelers and writers have extolled the beauty of Hotel Sardinia, immersed in an environment largely untouched, which is home to a landscape with flora and fauna species found nowhere else, then where are the vestiges of civilization nuragica. British writer David Herbert Lawrence, during a brief tour on the island, wrote in his travelogue amazed:
“This land does not resemble any other place. Sardinia is another thing about enchanting space and distance to travel, nothing finished, nothing definitive. It’s like freedom itself. “
(David Herbert Lawrence, by Sea and Sardinia, 1921)
The singer-songwriter Fabrizio De Andre, fascinated by its beauty, decided to reside there permanently then describing it this way:
“Life in Sardinia is probably the best a man can hope: twenty-four thousand kilometers of forests, countryside, surrounded by a sea coast of miraculous should coincide with what I recommend to God to give us as Paradise. “
ALGHERO – Historical signature this afternoon in Alghero, at El Faro Hotel in Porto Conte, among the President of the Region of Sardinia, Renato Soru, the Mediterranean Coast Ambassadors and the Representatives of the United Nations Environmental Program for the Mediterranean from Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey, Lebanon, Spain, France, Syria, Jordan, Great Britain, Greece, Israel and Croatia. 
A unique experience, an extraordinary event, 130 journalists follow one another for 4 days to test the new Ducati version Hypermotard. Courses on track or on asphalt road in front of the sea.