Nuoro

Description

Nuoro is a city and comune in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy, situated on the slopes of the Monte Ortobene. It is the capital of the province of Nuoro. It is the sixth-largest city in Sardinia. Birthplace of several renowned artists, including writers, poets, painters, and sculptors, Nuoro hosts some of the most important museums in Sardinia. It is considered an important cultural center of the region and it has been referred as the ``Atene sarda``. Nuoro is the hometown of Grazia Deledda, the first and only Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The earliest traces of human settlement in the Nuoro area called ``the Nuorese`` are the so-called Domus de janas, rock-cut tombs dated at the third millennium BC.