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 Car Hire & Driving in Alghero, ItalyWelcome to Alghero Car Hire, Sardinia Island, Italy; available at Alghero Airport.Sardinia Island Car HireIn his travelogue, Sea and Sardinia, D H Lawrence wrote that Sardinia was ‘left outside of time and history’. Indeed, the march of time has been slow in Sardinia, and traditions from ancient Europe have also survived in Sardinia, as you may be able to witness while travelling around Sardinia in your hire car. These traditions are displayed in Sardinia’s many festivals which you may be able to catch while in Sardinia in your hire car. Several different dialects and languages are spoken in Sardinia, Catalan can be heard in Alghero, and on the island of San Pietro, there is a Ligurian dialect. Of particular interest on Sardinia are the pre-historic nuraghe castles, villages, temples and tombs which litter the countryside and which you can visit in your hire car while on Sardinia. Alghero Car Hire Sardinia IslandFounded on a peninsula facing the Bay of Alghero early in the 12th century, Alghero was peopled by settlers from Barcelona and Valencia. Alghero is consistently Spanish as you will find on a trip to Alghero in your hire car. Filled with labyrinth alleys and cobbled streets, the lively port of old Alghero is flanked by battlemented walls and defensive towers on all but the landward section, as you can see on a trip to Alghero in your hire car. Facing the Giardino Pubblico in Alghero is the massive 16th century Torre di Porta Terra which you can visit in your hire car and is also known as the Jewish Tower, after its builders. Around the periphery of Alghero’s old town are more towers that you can explore in your hire car, including Torre dell’Espero Reial and Torre San Giacomo, which you will find on Lungomare Colombo in your hire car, and Torre della Maddalena, which you will find on Piazza Porta Terra in your hire car in Alghero. You can also visit the 16th century Duomo in your hire car while in Alghero. The Duomo is predominantly Catalan-Gothic with an Aragonese portal and you will find the Duomo at the bottom of Via Umberto in your hire car in Alghero. Off Via Carlo Alberto in your hire car the 14th century San Franceso in Alghero has a pretty cloister and octagonal campanile towering over Alghero. In Via Principle Umberto in your hire car is the Casa Doria which you can visit in Alghero, this is the house where the pre-Hispanic rulers of Alghero lived. It has a beautiful Renaissance portal and Gothic-arched window. Of course your hire car comes into its own when travelling to places of interest around Alghero. You can drive your hire car to the spectacular Grotta di Nettuno on Sardinia which is a deep natural cave round the point of Capo Caccia. Also worth a visit in your hire car from Alghero is another set of caves at the Grotta Verde. The Alghero Tourist Information Centre can be found on Piazza Porta Terra in your hire car and can provide advice on what to see and do in your hire car while in Alghero and around Sardinia. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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