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One of the notable monuments of the town of Santa Teresa di Gallura is definitely Longosardo Tower, the ancient name of the country. It was erected in the sixteenth century by the then King Philip II of Spain at the end of the country on a small piece of rock.
This tower was under the command of Francesco Maria Magnon around it built the foundations of the country today.
A few miles from the center is also the Church of Buoncammino, entirely surrounded by greenery and nature. This place of prayer, meditation and quiet is often a popular destination for many pilgrims and curious.
Another site of great historical importance is the so-called Battery Ferrero, a set of military positions, trenches, barracks and places for the artillery used during the Second World War.
Finally, how not to mention the Nuraghe, Sardinia typical buildings, which date back to the Bronze Age here, and they are the sites of the head and Lu Brandali.
These date back to 4000 BC and are believed to be the first settlements of the country.
The typical local language, if you can speak the language, spoken in Santa Teresa di Gallura is the Gallura.
One can not speak the language but mainly language or dialect, derived mainly from the course, the dialect of the mountains of Corsica. Although there is no lack of written dialect, with bas-reliefs in the Middle Ages and even in the eighteenth century poems.
Although geographically Sardinian and Italian, the Gallura is associated to linguistic properties, structure, spelling and grammar, in the course.
It is commonly spoken in Santa Teresa di Gallura in other countries as well as the provinces of Sassari and Olbia-Tempio, Sassari and mingling with Logudorese dialects. In total an estimated gallurse can be spoken by about 100 000 people.
Common to all these talk is the typical end-ua syllable word, that is not stressed, as this article (u, lu).
On the other hand, we talk about Madeleine a derivation of Gallura, called Isulanu, approaching still more to the romance language course.
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