Alghero is an Historical Town
Alghero is probably Sardinia’s most touristy town and its most attractive:
WIth it’s colourful bell towers and cobbled streets , its medieval walls and seaside bastions . Yet Alghero started as a Catalan colony and you can still see the Catalan-inscribed street signs of “Little Barcelona”, and eat paella.
One of Alghero’s landmarks is the Cattedrale di Santa Maria in the Piazza Duomo - a mixture of Renaissance, Baroque and Gothic styles with four oversized Doric columns that nearly cover its façade. The campanile and portal are from the original 1552 construction and modelled after the cathedral in Barcelona.
Nearby in the Museo Diocesano d’Arte Sacra you can view Spanish jewels, a marble statue of the Madonna della Misericordia, and a collection of stamped lithographs of Sardinian Romanesque churches.