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Pula is a small city near Cagliari with less than 7.000 inhabitants and a territory very 139 kmq that it comprises beyond to residential zones, the sea, mountains and extended fertile plains.

To arrive to Pula is much simple one, enough to take, from Cagliari, the state road 195 and to cover 30 kilometers approximately. After approximately 30 minutes by car here the main entrance, than it is introduced like a short section of tree-lined road that finishes with   a crossing and of forehead to this one small tree-lined public square. This is a place that covers much importance the day of 2 the May, when reaches to Pula Sant'Efisio, patron of all the Sardinians, and an immense crowd attends just in this place the arrival of the Saint.  

Exceeded the crossing, a bridge crosses the River of Pula, after which you are arrived to the center of the country.

The bridge recently has been with subordinate to restructure and has been equipped sidewalks both the sides. Crossing the bridge there is a intersection: on the right one is found a scholastic structure and continuing in this direction it is returned in the state road, on left there is Circonvallazione St. that runs along a side of the country make easy the attainment of the other head. In straight direction it is gone towards the center of Pula.  

The heart of Pula is introduced immediately pleasant and much vitality. The public Central Square is the main public place and from it they leave, like of arteries, the main roads, that cross the city from north to south and east to west. They are the Nora St., the Montesanto St. and Vittorio Emanuele Main St. which accommodates the business activities and the public buildings and they are connected to other important ways. It is in this public Central Square that more frequently people meet others. There is who crosses it in order to catch up a store to make purchases, who has given an appointment for job, who arrive to taste a coffee in the bar, who acquires the daily paper to the newspaper stand. 

In the public Central Square there is the main entrance of a house very important for Pula from the historical point of view. We are speaking about the so-called "Casa Frau", an ancient house in Sardinian style where the office of the Tourist Association Pro Loco Pula has center. Characteristic of the Sardinan houses is the court that rose at the center of the house. During the summer in "Casa Frau" various manifestations are kept from Pro Loco, between the many, the famous artisan review "Artifolk" and the tastings of Sardinian typical products. As I have already said, from the public Central Square can be taken various roads, of these Nora St., realized in building stone, heads towards the little distant church. The church of Saint Giovanni, patron of Pula, goes back to centuries XVI - XVII, and to the end of 1800 were executed restoration jobs. Recently they have been carried out of the restructure jobs that have interested the building and the front small public square, while they continue the restorations of frescoes to the inside.
 

The Nora St. crosses the historical center towards the sea where it becomes Nora Avenue, in the last years business activities have been concentrated on this road numerous and small handicraft that during the summery period remains opened until late evening encouraging nocturnal walks along the historical center with possibility of shopping. Nora St. it intersects Corinaldi St. that filler on an other central road, the Vittorio Emanuele Main Street. Corinaldi St. moreover it allows to penetrate on an other important road Lamarmora Street.