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Olbia-Tempio Province
On the northeast tip of Sardinia (Sardegna) Olbia-Tempio
province is highly mountainous and occupies a large
part of the Tyrrhenian coastline of the region.
Unlike most of the other provinces, the native Sardinian
dialect isn’t spoken here, but rather, a type of Corsican
language.
Olbia-Tempio is very sparsely populated and much of
the local economy depends on tourism and fishing.
There are two capital cities, Tempio Pausania and Olbia.
Olbia is a mid-sized town of over 30,000 people that
is also a major ferry stop between Sardinia and the
Italian mainland. Its location at the inlet of a large,
natural harbour, makes it ideal for such activity. Until
the mid-1940s, the city was known as Terranova Pausania
during the Fascist period, before being renamed as it
was in Roman times.
Tempio Pausania is about half as large. Most of the
buildings in this town date back to the 17th and 18th
centuries though there are remains of the Nuraghe civilization
that lived here protected from Phoenicians for several
centuries until the Romans arrived.
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