By Eliot Stein
Away from its famed cerulean seas, Sardinia's craggy interior is a twisting maze of deep chasms and impenetrable massifs that shelter some of Europe's most ancient traditions.
Residents here still speak Sardo, the closest living form of Latin. Grandmothers gaze warily at outsiders from under embroidered veils. And, in a modest apartment in the town of Nuoro, a slight 62-year-old named Paola Abraini wakes up every day at 7 am to begin making su filindeu – the rarest pasta in the world.
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