Also this year, Nuoro becomes, for a Sunday, the capital city of the folklore for an expected party every summer in the whole Sardinia: the Feast of the Savior is developed in two phases, the first one and the last but one Sunday of August, the second the 29 of the same month. At the end of last century, on the occasion of the priestly jubilee of Pope Leone XIII, the Roman church decided to have twenty monuments built to Christ Savior from to erect on twenty mountains of Italy; one in honor of pope Leone and nineteen how much Christianity's centuries. The statue reached Nuoro the 19 August of 1901 and the 29 of the same month was transported with a wagon to oxen and situated on the Bidda mountain, buttress of the Ortobene Mountain. Left the source to the left Merchant, it reaches each other the small rural church of the Madonna of the Mountain, destination of pilgrimages, and from here, through a brief path, to the statue of the Savior. To the opening ceremony of the statue, the morning of 29, a crowd was assembled of over 3000 believers, date that from to the time it coincides with the Feast of the Savior. Also this year the ritual is repeated. Thousand of customs, the best of the island, will unthread in procession in the principal city roads, not only thrilling the tourists but all the Sardinians that will assist to the demonstration, because the parade of the Savior is, together with the Feast of Saint Efisio and to the Sardinian Ride, one of the most known feasts and you attend of Sardinia. 29 the feast lives the part more felt by the local community that religious. A prayer, a vote from to absolve, a grace from to ask, authentic devotion they push the believers to climb the mountain and to hasten to the feet of the Savior for the traditional religious appointment. To the six of the morning, with in head a copy in wood of the statue of the Savior, the procession is moved from the Cathedral to come, around 8, on top of the Ortobene Mountain where the first mass will be celebrated. Up to few years ago the mass was held under the statue of the Savior, but it is now developed in the green lawn of the park in how much the small before space the altar and the statue all it takes is containing the as people that every year it assists to the solemn ceremony.

 

ITINERARY
VILLASIMIUS THE TROPIC NEAR

This month the itinerary is developed completely in the territory of Villasimius that understands the brief but interesting line of coast of the extremity oriental south of Sardinia. Villasimius is distant from Cagliari 50 Kms and is reached her crossing the road that has beginning to the intersection of the National Road 554, the bypass of Cagliari, with the coast road of the Poetto. The road penetrates to the inside, therefore the sea reappears with the beach of Piscadeddus, slender and long, with the homonym rock-cliffs. After a breve slope is perceived toward the lower part the inlet of Porto Carbonara with the white dazzling of the beach of Campus and the small beach of Cuccureddus. Old Campulongu is met the Beach of the Rice, by now course street almost entirely from the sea and the new one I bring tourist with well 750 places boat endowed of all the services of bench and able to entertain boats actually to 25 meters length. The road is concluded to Capo Carbonara, vast rocky promontory with to the center the sour Greenhouse of Saint Caterina, on whose oriental side is found a kind of valley fossil extended actually to Porto Giunco. The road to bashful, overcome the I bring and directing toward Villasimius, on the right, a road, asphalted for few meters, it conducts to the beautiful beach of Porto Giunco, an edge of candid sand between the blue of the sea and that of the Pond of Notteri. Reaches the outskirts of the country, is developed to the right, to reach the beach of Simius. Continuing along the road for Coast Rei we conclude our itinerary with the sight of the beaches of Point Molentis, Riu Trottu and the overlooking Island of Serpentara, from the sinuous form and lengthened, surmounted from the tower of Saint Luigi. The archaeological testimonies of age prehistoric they are constituted by a domus de jana, near the Beach of the Rice, drawn inside a counter granite and numerous "nuraghi" (prehistoric constructions), ache preserved, distributed is next to the coasts that toward the inside, among which we quote those in place Giardone and Accu is Traias. The passage phoenician and punica have left testimonies hilly overall of Cuccureddus, to the center of the Gulf of Carbonara and the before area the Pond of Notteri with the presence of varied structures in bad state while it is being of notable interest the recovery of numerous material what ceramics, earths cooked votive and coins. For the one who he wants to spend a different day he can sail between the islands of the Cabbages and Serpentara to edge of a boat to motor, with invitation to lunch of the commander, or in sailboat with an excursion of three hours, with standstills for the bath or the immersions in the most suggestive points of the islands and the coast.