The name derives from Etruscula, a village founded perhaps in the times of the Roman Republic, or more likely from truiscu, 'mountain pepper', a herbaceous plant that thrived in the hills surrounding the village, used...
Rising in the valley between the Monte Arci and Monte Grighine, Villaurbana is cultivated with wheat, olive groves and vineyards. Long inhabited, the town of Roman origins today has 1,700 inhabitants, living on the border of the...
From the Middle Ages until 1954, it was called Bannari, deriving from balneus (thermal bath), hence why the municipality has two names – one official and the other historical. Villa Verde is a tiny village of just over 300...
The XII century origins of San Leonardo di Siete Fuentes are not clear, but they do predate nearby Santu Lussurgiu, some six kilometres away. It has been lived in since time immemorial, under the Torres and then Arborea guidicati...
The story of Our Lady of Bonacattu begins in the 5th century, when the Byzantine settlers began building a small quadrangular church (12 metres each side) from basalt and trachyte rock. Subsequent alterations (7th-8th century)...
The buildings stand on the green slopes of the Perda 'e pranu plateau, set in a loop of the beautiful Omodeo lake. The sanctuary and novenary of San Serafino, immersed in the evocative scenery of Ghilarza territory, were...
It contains the Giants of Mont'e Prama, the greatest archaeological discovery of the late 20th century in the Mediterranean. The Civic Archaeological Museum of Cabras, inaugurated in 1997 and named after Giovanni Marongiu, a...
In 2016, travellers voted it the fifth most beautiful beach in Sardinia and the first in the province of Oristano. It is largely devoted to cats. Su Pallosu is one of the gems dotted along Capo Mannu, the northernmost part of the...
This town that looks out over the sea was, in the II century BCE, a Roman settlement called Gurulis Nova. Cuglieri fans out like an amphitheatre on Bardosu hill, on the western slope of Montiferru, of which it has always been the...
Lying on the Abbasanta plateau, it offers a panoramic view of Lago Omodeo and the Chenale valley, coloured by woods of oak and sessile oak, Mediterranean scrub and orchids, interlaced with paths and interspersed with ‘healing’...
