Alghero

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Template:Catalan-speaking world Alghero (L'Alguer in Catalan and S'Alighera in Sardinian), is a town of about 35,000 inhabitants (down from 54,300 inhabitants since early 20th century). It lies in the province of Sassari in north-western Sardinia, Italy.

The city was built by the Doria of Genoa in 1102.

The people in Alghero speak an ancient Catalan dialect from when Catalan invaders repopulated the town after expelling the autochthonous Sardinian population in 1372, following several revolts. Catalan was replaced as the official language by Spanish in the seventeenth century, then by Italian. In the 1990s, about 60% of locals still understood spoken Algherese Catalan.

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Ecclesiastical history

An Italian diocese comprising twenty-two communes in the civilian province of Sassari, and four in that of Cagliari; suffragan of Sassari. It contains 20 parishes.

In 1106 John, Bishop of Alghero, assisted at the consecration of the Church of the Trinity in Sacargia. After a long period of decadence, the see was renewed and confirmed by Julius II in his Bull of 1503; Pietro Parens, a Genoese, became bishop; he was present at the Lateran Council in 1512, from the first to the seventh session.

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