Alghero is situated on the north-western coast of the island, Alghero it is one of the most known tourist destinations in Sardinia. Alghero has also called Barceloneta or the small Barcellona, in fact it has origin from the Aragonese Catalans they tore the city from Genoa in 1354 and today the people of the place still speak strongly a dialect connected to the Catalan language, everything you/he/she mirrors his/her origins in the folkloro, in the Gothic architectures of the buildings, to the name of the streets. The most interesting church is the Church of St. Francis. There are three defensive towers in the city: the Tower of the Portal, on plaza it Brings Earth, it was endowed with ditch and bridge drawbridge and it acted from entry in the strengthened city; the Tower de the Esperò Reial was one of the bastions of the boundaries of Alghero; and the Tower de Sant Jaume.
From the I bring of Alghero the Cave of Neptune you/he/she can be reached, to Head it Chases.
The Dogia Mountain, behind the city, it is the environment more photographed, among the kinds more appreciated it is found: the juniper feniceo, the pleased limonio and the centaura borrida, for the fauna the fallow deer, the albino donkey, the wandering hawk and the real griffon live. The hinterland is rich of vineyards that produce the grapes for the more appreciated Sardinian wines.
