Nuoro

Nuoro (Italian: Provincia di Nuoro; Sardinian: Prověntzia de Nůgoro) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Nuoro.

It has an area of 3,934 km˛, and a total population of 164,260 (2001 census). There are 52 comuni in the province, the largest of which are Nuoro (population: 36,678), Macomer (11,116), and Siniscola (10,954). (source: Italian National Institute of Statistics.

Nuoro (Nůgoro, that literally means \"home\", in the ancient Nuoro\'s dialect), is a town and province in central Sardinia, Italy, located at the slopes of Mount Ortobene.

Overlying the central mountains in a panoramic position, Nuoro is the most typical Sardinian town, the one where Sardinians feel their roots lie.

It has been called \"the Sardinian Athens\" due to the large number of poets, writers, and intellectuals that here took part in a quite original culture[2]. It is the home of Grazia Deledda, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926. The province has been the home of scientists in many disciplines and artists such as the sculptor Francesco Ciusa Romagna.