Sassari (in Italian and Sassarese, TÃ thari in Sardinian) is an Italian city in Sardinia (Italy). It is the second-largest in terms of number of inhabitants and one of the most ancient cities in the island, it contains a considerable collection of art.It has about 130,300 inhabitants, or about 300,000 including the suburbs (metropolitan area)
Sassari is located in north-western Sardinia, at 225 metres above sea level, it rises up on a vast karstic plateau, that slopes gently down towards the Gulf of Asinara and the Nurra Plain. The town is surrounded by a green belt of thousands of hectares of olive plantations, that from the nineteenth century partly replaced the oak woods and the maquis shrubland.
The abundance of water (400 springs and artesian wells) encouraged the development of horticulture, throughout the centuries.
Sassari is the fifth largest municipality in Italy (area 546 km²), the thinly populated Nurra Plain, located in the west, occupies main part of its territory, while the urban agglomeration, with a population of about 275.000 inhabithants, is located in the south east.
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