But I carried on.” The parade of Mamuthones is an annual winter tradition in the Italian village of Mamoiada. The village of around 2,300 is in the heart of Sardinia, an Italian island about ...

Sardinia’s most remarkable monuments are ... of the island’s folk traditions is the carnival ritual of the Mamuthones in the mountain town of Mamoiada: black-masked, sheepskin-clad figures ...

In the 1960s, the late Prince Karim Aga Khan IV bought the Costa Smeralda (Emerald Coast) in northeastern Sardinia, subsequently turning the area into a hot spot for royalty and celebrities.