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Hotels in Olbia
Olbia is a town of approximately 40,000 inhabitants
in northeastern Sardinia (Italy), in the Gallura sub-region.
Awash with traffic and ugly apartment blocks, OLBIA is the least Sardinian of all the island's towns. Its port and airport, however, make it an inevitable stop for some and its numerous bars and restaurants are generally crowded with tourists, sailors from the port and US service personnel from the nearby NATO bases.
If you're stuck for an afternoon here, you might as
well visit the town's only item of historical interest, the little
basilica of San Símplicio, on the street of the same name. The simple
granite structure is set in a piazza apart from Olbia's bustle, making
it a good spot for a sit down. Claimed to be the most important medieval
monument in the whole of Gallura – a region hardly famed for its
artistic heritage – the church formed part of the great Pisan
reconstruction programme of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, though,
it must be said, it is the least interesting example of it. Its murky
interior has three aisles separated by pillars and columns recycled from
Roman constructions, and even the stoup for the holy water was formerly
an urn that held cremated ashes.
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