The hinterland offers meat-based second courses such as roasted pork, goat and lamb or boiled or stewed sheep and lamb, seasoned with olives or vegetables. Another speciality is “zimino", roasted lamb or veal innards. Onions from Banari, red and aromatic, are also noteworthy.
Found throughout the entire area and to be tried, especially during the winter, are the tasty “broad beans with lard" along with the traditional bread spianata .
Bread is presented in many forms (as on the entire Island) and is the result of the local bread-making tradition's customs and creativity; “su cabule" or “su pane fine", are a few types of elaborately worked flat breads.
If you prefer fish dishes, typical of the coastal areas, the Sassarese is characterised by inviting fish soups with spicy tomato sauce, crustacea or specialities like “octopus with potatoes".
For dessert, try the delicate “sospiri", almond-paste based, aromatized with orange blossom flavouring or “copulettas", a sponge cake dessert and with almond flavouring.
Special attention must be paid to the Algherese cuisine, Catalan enclave in Sardinia, with it famous crustacean dishes. “Lobster Catalan style" must be mentioned, served according to the traditional recipe, with slight variations, and spaghetti with sea-urchin, protagonist of many local festivals. The vineyards in the Sassarese region, in particular those in the area of Alghero, have produced some of the most renowned wines in Sardinia; dessert wines, white, red and rosé.
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Must see
Borutta (Roman basilica of S. Pietro di Sorres), Ardara (Roman church of S. Maria del Regno), Siligo (Byzantine church of S. Maria di Mesumundu), Torralba (Roman church of N. Signora di Cabu Abbas, museum of the Nuraghe of the Logudoro-Meilogu valley, Santu Antine Nuraghe), Bonorva (Neolithic Necropolis of S. Andrea Priu), Semestene (Roman church of S. Nicolò di Trullas), Pozzomaggiore (Gothic-Aragonese church of S. Giorgio), Padria (Aragonese church of S. Giulia), Mara (seventh century church of N.S. di Bonu Ighinu), Cossoine (early Christian-Byzantine church of S. M. Iscalas) and in Codrongianus (Roman-Pisan basilica Saccargia).
Other possible itineraries:
Other possible itineraries include:
Tempio Pausania (fourth century cathedral and late Roman styled Oratory del Rosario), Oschiri (Roman church of NS di Castro), Ozieri (Neolithic grotto of S. Michele, Gothic-Aragonese cathedral, archaeological museum, Roman church of S. Antioco di Bisarcio), Ittireddu (medieval church of Santa Croce, archaeological and ethnographic museum), Perfugas (Predio Canopoli Nuraghic temple with a well, municipal archaeological museum), Bulzi (Roman church of S. Pietro di Simbranos), and in Castelsardo (Domus de Janas, Roccia dell'elefante, Roman-Pisan Abbey of N.S. di Tergu).
Itineraries : Porto Torres (Roman basilica of S. Gavino, monument of Mount d'Accoddi dating back to the Bronze Age, Roman baths, Antiquarian, Roman bridge), Alghero (Neolithic hypogean Necropolis of Angelo Ruiu, Neolithic Necropolis of Santu Pedru, Nuraghe and village of Palmavera, Nuraghe of Sant'Imbenia), Argentiera (mining village from the 1800's).
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