January
THE CARNIVAL
IGLESIAS - MARRUBIU
In Sardinia the Carnival
begins on January 17 with the party of S. Anthony Abbot and is concluded with
the Pentolaccia the Sunday that follows on Wednesdays of the ashes. The carnival
is often represented from a king and a queen or from a puppet of roll to which
a name of imagination very often gives each other. The puppet is brought in
procession to be burnt then.
IGLESIAS
Also
this year deriving groups from the whole Sardinia will give life to the carnival
of Iglesias. As it is known, actually to a little while ago, Iglesias was city
of mines and the wealth of the subsoil of the whole zone she has attracted for
a long time, with the perspective of easy earnings, the strangers with their
habits, their customs and therefore also with their parties and their ways to
have a good time. To Iglesias this puppet is called Norfieddu and anchor
today she is brought around for the city and, at the end of the celebrations,
burnt in a big fire. In last century, Victor Angius, in his History of Iglesias,
so he wrote: "By now the carnival you has lost not few of the ancient hilarity
and festivity and it is not practised the game of the oranges that they were
launched by the masks and buttocks from the persons disguised not against those
that they were found anymore in the street or they had leaned out to the balconies.
In 1866 town documents he reads that during the carnival runs of masks were
developed to horse along the historical center of the city, with big share of
people so much from to require a notable help from the public strength. With
the last war, the carnival of Iglesias has gone in disuse and solo in the last
years the Borough Council Clerk's Office to the Tourism, in collaboration with
that to the Public Education, he has increased and organized the spontaneous
masks resulting in the parades of the wagons and the deriving disguised groups
from all the parts of Sardinia. Also this year the elegance of the customs,
the inventive express in the wagons and the big share of public they will be
the ingredients of the carnival of Iglesias; more than five thousand masks they
will unthread for the roads of the city, but other hundred they will turn freely
between the thousand of tourists and curious that will arrive from the whole
island showing big interest by now for an usual appointment for the Sardinians.
The parade will take the start in the first afternoon with in head Norfieddu,
which will follow the wagons and the masks of Iglesias and the other island
centers among which Cortoghiana, Samassi, Saint Gavino. To carnival book for
fabulous dances in mask.
MARRUBIU
The
carnival of Marrubiu, relegated for a long arc of time in the drawer of the
memoirs, you/he/she has been discovered again and revalued in 1979 almost unexpectedly.
Without shade of doubt, the carnival of manages Marrubiu a strong call on the
inhabitants of the center of the campidano so much that different thousand of
persons flow in the roads it crossed from the disguised procession to admire
the hundred masks that they unthread. The parade departed then from plaza of
the martyrs to end in plaza of the Market. The zippolata didn't exist
yet (preparation of fried sweets), but already in that edition he was burnt
in plaza King Carnevale, represented by a wood puppet dressed of old rags. In
1980, to his second edition, the demand is manifested to give a name, but above
all an image symbol to this pre-Lenten demonstration. It is born therefore Su
Labi, a big wood piece that anciently he was used for holding near the two
oxen that hauled the wagon only to an arm. This symbol was chosen by all the
heads wagon of that edition. From to remember the 1989 edition that he saw the
parade opened by the wagon of Su Marruleri, accompanied by the trumpeters
and drummers of the Sartiglia of Oristano, the fire of King Carnevale
and the offer to the present authorities and first classified him a figurine
in wood that represents the local mask. It is 1991 the introduction of a parade
for children and the idea to erect a circus awning where to let develop big
part of the demonstration, his children's carnival, dances and music. In the
first afternoon it will have beginning the parade that, as from tradition, it
will depart from plaza of the Martyrs and it will cross the principal streets
of Marrubiu to end to half evening for the fun of great and small that also
this year they won't want to the big appointment to miss.
ITINERARY
FORDONGIANUS
"THERMAL BATHS AND TRACHITE"
Center
of the Campidano of Oristano, built almost entirely in red trachite (rock)
and known since the antiquity for his thermal waters, Fordongianus is attainable
taking the National Road 338 to the height of Oristano, distance 25 Kms, or
diverting to the height of Ghilarza, on the National Road 131 encore, direction
Busachi. Situated along the road that, in Roman epoch, Cagliari connected with
Olbia, in the territory important testimonies of prehistoric epoch are had,
phoenician-punic and Roman. The thermal complex is constituted by an aboriginal
plant that exploits the sources of warm water, of a thermal building to artificial
heating and from a well in the tall part. Thermal waters were bridled through
a wall and carry in a rectangular well and therefore you distribute in the varied
tubs of the complex. The principal tub, said natatio, is gifted of steps to
the sides for the descent and measure 13 meters for 6 and mean for a depth of
a meter and mean and she had covered from an ample time to barrel. On the side
right other secondary tubs and ambulatories. The actual thermal baths, dams
for restauration, are on the right shore of the river and they exploit the radioactive
thermal sources salty of Caddas and Bangius that gush out to 60°
C. Coming from Oristano, to the Km 24.500, a kilometer before Fordongianus,
is found the Palaeo-Christian hipogeum of Saint Lussorio or Lussurgiu, built
around 1100 from the monks vittorini above a crypt Palaeo-Christian of the IV
- V century d.C. In the XIII century, subsequently to a collapse, the church
was restored while the prospectus, of Gothic style - aragonese, is referable
to a remaking of the XV century. To the inside, near the presbytery, a rectangular
opening introduces in the crypt of Saint Lussorio. The hipogeum is constituted
from a corridor with to the extremity a small apse and two entries that conduct
to an ambulatory to " U " of around ten meters with floor to mosaic
to chessboard with small square red and greens. On the walls of the longitudinal
corridor and the ambulatory graves of different typology are opened: a sarcophagus
in stone, rectangular loculis of varied dimensions, a grave to pit. Fordongianus
was Episcopalian center in the V century, up to the tall Middle Ages; it belonged
to the judged of Arboreal and it was actually chief town of the curatoria of
Barigadu to the XIV century, when chief town became Busachi. It passed therefore
under the marquisate of Oristano and it suffered the domination aragonese and
Spaniard. These the places from to visit, but if you want further information
you can turn to the Commune (telephone 078360123) and to the Tourist Association
I For-rent (telephone 078360083) for everything what it concerns the history,
the parties, the craftsmanship, the hospitality and the commercial activities
of Fordongianus.
THE
SARDINIAN TOWNS
MACOMER
Sets
to the southern term of the highland of Campeda, to the confluence of
the chain of the Marghine with the high ground of the Ferru mountain,
Macomer is almost leaned out to the northern edges of the lowland of the Campidano.
In place Tamara, the hill that overhangs northwest Macomers, in a wall
basaltic long 25 meters and tall middly three and half, is results eight vain
mono-jail cell and suitable bi-jail cell as sos furrighesos de Tamara
and more aloft, to less than a kilometer, the necropolis of Funtana Giaga
with four hypogeas in three different rocky spikes. In place Filigosa,
in front of the new hospital, a long base of tall trachite around three meters
is overhung by the nuraghe Ruggiu (prehistoric construction), collapsed
vertically for a third. The principal grave is developed for around twenty meters
and she is constituted from a corridor to long trapezoidal plant around twelve
meters and from a complex of seven cells, which is accessed by an amplest environment
with the funeral bed on the wall of left and, to the center, a circular ritual
hearth. The nuraghe Barbaric Saint is found in place Padru Pizzinnu,
on the high ground placed by the opposite part of the National Road 131 in comparison
to Macomer. The plant is rectangular, to sinuous sides, with central tower that
is raised for 15 meters and four towers to the angles. The whole communication
trench, that once connected the four towers, has stopped from collapses, while
of these are being visitable only that of the part of the entry. The nuraghe
Succoronis is found to few kilometers from Macomer, to the right of the
road for Bosa. Sets on a high ground, it is hacked stately in the sky and it
gathers the look for his simple line and the stones prepared in geometric way
perfectly. To 4 kms from Macomer, on the road for Santu Lussurgiu, a deviation
conducts to the tourist place of mountain Saint Anthony. On the right, three
graves of giants ache preserved while on the left a nuraghe with destroyed curtain
edged totally partially in the anterior part from a series of entire huts. On
the right side they are the chapels of the Rosary, of the Pity, of the Crucifix
and the entry in the bell tower and the greatest sacristy. On the left the chapels
of Saint Anthony, of Lourdes, of the Souls, of Saint Giovanni and the
small sacristy. In the third chapel of left, a precious tall wooden crucifix
is found more than two meters, datable around the end of the XVI century, and,
in the chapel of the Pity, a valuable work in marble that represents the Madonna
and the Christ. In the Middle Ages, Macomer made part with the name of Macomeli
of the judged of Torres, chief town of the curatoria of the Marghine, to
pass to the judged of Arborea. Now then, Macomer is a town that he has
known how to gather his center creating an industrial zone and a handicraft
in which operate activity in growth of the local and regional economy.
