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AGM 2008.

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Cagliari- inflatable church.

from the Times Online 26th July

Beach church inflates attendances
An Italian Catholic youth organisation set up an inflatable church at a Mediterranean beach, but a strong breeze threatened to lift it into the heavens.
The Times Online reports the “bouncy church” is 30 metres long and 15 metres wide, and comes complete with an altar, an apse and a confessional.
Using compressed air it takes only five minutes to inflate, according to Fr Andrea Brugnoli, who organised the service on a beach at Cagliari, the Sardinian capital.
Fr Brugnoli, who heads a Catholic youth organisation called Sentinelle del Mattino (Sentinels of the Morning), said the group already offered “spiritual comfort” at motorway service stations, discotheques and seaside resorts.
An inflatable church was a logical next step, he said.
Yesterday the structure had to be deflated hastily because of a strong mistral that threatened to lift it into the sky. Fr Brugnoli, however, was undeterred.Continue reading this post…

AGM 2008/09- NOTICE to Members

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Map of Sardinia.

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Choosing the name: Domus de Janas.

The name of Domus De Janas come from the Sardinian language” Fairies or witches house”, following an old and popular belief. As the Nuraghi , they are an essential part of Sardinia’s history.
They are burial structures made from dug tombs on the rocks, of various shapes and connected to each other to form trough underground necropolis with a common access corridor and a hall often very large and with high ceiling.
They can be found all over Sardinia, by themselves or together in large numbers made of more than 40 tombs.
In the island there are about 2500 domus de janas they go back to the period between 3000 BC and 1500 BC and some are of more recent times.

Welcome to Sardinia

In Sardinia the force of nature, the incredibly diversity and beauty of the landscape, the hospitality of the people and authenticity of the local traditions open up a new and luscious world that no visitor would refuse to explore.

The territory

Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean (24,089 km²).

Mountains
Although not very tall, Sardinia’s mountains are rather steep. The region’s most important massif the Gennargentu, which towers over the central and eastern part of the island, its highest peak, Punta La Marmora, is 1834m high. Starting form the north, other mountains include: the Ala’ mountains and the Marghine and Goceano ranges, immediately to the south: Punta Salici, Monte Ferru an old extinct volcano- and Punta Marrasi, again in the north: Monte Linas, Monte dei Sette Fratelli and Monte Santa Vittoria, in the Iglesiente.Continue reading this post…