SEDILO
L’ARDIA

The party culminates with the Ardia, run of horses in which numerous riders simulate a battle in memory of I meet him between Massenzio and Constantine. On July 6, at 6 pm, hundred riders they gather in front of the house of the Priest. Here the delivery of the standard happens, "Sa Pandela", of yellow color, to the head raced, better known as "Pandela Matzore", capable rider chosen by the Priest in the respect of the chronological order of registration in a register jealously guarded in parish and that it has the assignment to drive with mastery and ability the run and it will have to avoid of to let from the riders of the succession overcome. In this he will have helped from two riders from him chosen and that they will be respectively the second Pandela, with the standard of red color and the third Pandela, with the standard of white color. There are still others three riders, in slang Sas Iscortas, that, chosen by the Pandelas, they will have the assignment to prevent the riders of the succession to overcome the Pandela Matzore. To a sign of the head raced the riders you/they are launched in an unbridled run along the steep descent that introduces in the arc of Saint Constantine and they go up again the slant that brings to the situated church in the high ground of "Mountain Isei". You second and the third Pandela and the escorts use the lances lowered of the banners as you beat up for holding back the riders and to prevent them to overcome the head raced. A crowd of around fifty thousand persons it assists to the run with anxiety and trepidation. The riflemen systematized to the edges of the run shoot thousand of cartridges to hi prepared with shot dust, cork and bran. The horses dart between the crowd without barriers of protection. Only the riflemen, through the experience matured in the years, they guarantee that the run is developed without accidents. The riders, after having participated in the mass immediately celebrated after the run, they are assembled and everybody together, when by now they lower the darkness, they climb to the country and they to bashful the road up to the parish house with musical gang, priest and mayor. Rests of rural churches have been individualized on the whole territory of Soothe him/it, but still in top there is alone that of Saint Constantine interesting above all for the urbanism of the complex with his/her big portals of entry and the long portals for the pilgrims.

ITINERARY
BARISARDO – TORTOLI’

The itinerary of this month is untied along the National Road 125, Sardinian Oriental, in the zone of the Ogliastra understood between Barisardo and Saint Maria Navarrese. From the center of the country he is taken the road that, passing to the feet of the highland of Teccu, after 4,5 Kms, door in the beautiful beach of Tower of Barì, so call for the presence of a Spanish tower, trunk-conic construction of the XVII century, situated on a small promontory, to the center of the bay. Going out of Barisardo from the part north, to the Km 131.1, pointed not out by some poster, on the right, an asphalted road can be taken, enough flowing, that coasts along the beach of Cea to rejoin to the road that hands to the Tower of Barì from Barisardo. Our itinerary continuing, always along the Sardinian Oriental, to the Km 138, pick each other up I release it for Tortolì. After around 300 meters we find, on the right, the ramification for the Beach of Orrì, one of the most beautiful beaches of the zone for her thin sand and the transparency of the sea. Tortolì is the most important center of the Ogliastra having overcome the ancient chief town Lanusei, thanks to her position on the shores of the Tyrrhenian, economically more favorable. The run is concluded to the Caves of the Sea Ox. You visit the caves the boat it completes the run to bashful to pick up the excursionists that have gone down in the varied beaches and therefore to make return to the point of departure around eighteen. Next to the I bring a tower trunk-conic seventeenth-century it rises, while on the right they are visible the famous red rocks of Arbatax, seam of porphyry that is pushed in the sea. Arbatax is dominated by the promontory Bellavista from which Tortolì and the pond can be observed; more to North, Sunflower and Lotzorai, Saint Maria Navarrese with before the islet of the Ogliastra; the picturesque mountains of Baunei to peak on the sea. At the base of the promontory, Porto Frailis, with his granite rocks and his crystalline sea. To the exit of Lotzorai, to the Km 145.7, on the right, it is diverted for Saint Maria Navarrese where our itinerary is concluded.