Nuoro

 city, commune - administrative division

Nuoro (Nùgoro, which probably means "home", in the ancient Nuoro's dialect), is a town and province in central Sardinia, Italy, located at the slopes of Mount Ortobene. Nuoro is the administrative center of one Europe's less-densely populated areas .

Overlying the central mountains in a panoramic position, Nuoro is one typical Sardinian town.
It is the hometown of Grazia Deledda, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926. The province has been the home of scientists in many disciplines[citation needed] and artists such as the sculptor Francesco Ciusa Romagna.

Another prominent author from Nuoro Salvatore Satta(Nuoro 1902, Rome 1975), noted for his publications on jurisprudence and civil proceedings as well as his posthumous romance Il Giorno del Giudizio ("The Day of Judgment") (translated in english by Patrick Creagh) edited in 1977 and translated in more than 90 languages. The Salvatore Satta's Nuoro even thought it was a very small town, it was divided in three parts. The peasant part is named "Sèuna", "Santu Predu" ("Saint Peter") is the shepherd settlement and the Via Majore (Main street) the burgeous side of the town.


The area of the Province of Nuoro is known for its concentration of centenarians and supercentenarians, including Antonio Todde, the world's oldest living man from March 5, 2001 to January 3, 2002.



Early Settlements

The eldest settlements, nearby the actual city, are located near the Tanca Manna's Nuraghe with about 800 huts. The ruins, dated among the 20th century BC, belong to the Neolithic Age. This is one of the eldest settlement in Sardinia.

List of Nuoro-related people

* Grazia Deledda, writer
* Salvatore Satta, scholar of Jurisprudence
* Costantino Nivola, sculptor
* Giovanni Pintori, graphic artist
* Maria Giacobbe, writer and essayist (in Italian and in Danish)
* Franco Oppo, composer
* Pietro Paolo Virdis, soccer player
* Gianfranco Zola, soccer player
* Gavino Murgia, jazz saxophonist, singer

Known like "Sardinian Athens", has been born Deledda Grace, prize Nobel 1926 for the literature, and others artists.