CAGLIARI
342° FEAST OF SAINT EFISIO

To Cagliari and in the whole island, the first May is, for tradition, the day of Saint Efisio. Well soon the cult for the saint, from Cagliari, been extended in the whole Sardinia and in 430 a church he was built above the suitable cave as jail of Saint Efisio and to Nora, in the point in which was performed the capital punishment, a martyrium was erect. In the May of 1657 it took place the first procession that brought the simulacrum of Saint Efisio from the church of Stampace, a district of Cagliari, up to Nora. Since then, the first May, it is completed a rite that was not even interrupted during the tragic period of the last war when the saint was transported on a truck from Cagliari to Nora. The riders ride alone or they bring, in saddle, the women decorated of splendid jewels. Behind the performers the Saint appears in his gilded coach. The small simulacrum goes up again to the XVII century and represents Saint Efisio dressed by Roman soldier, but with moustaches and short beard according to the Spanish manner of the period. The big one of the procession is loosened in the avenue her Plaja while the coach with the saint is proceeding toward Nora accompanied by the policemen from the religious representatives and from a limited number of believers that they have to carry out to a vote. The procession is interrupted by a lot of standstills: the first one in the church of Giorgino, where to the saint more simple dresses are put, while the gilded coach is being replaced with a wagon of country. In the while, to Pula, they have come from Cagliari to receive Saint Efisio, the Alter Nos, the third keeper, the keeper and the presidency of the Arci-brotherhood. The priest, the mayor, the town junta and the "obrieri" of Chaff, to the head of a procession of thousand of believers, they meet the saint on the bridge to the entry of the town. Here the change of the deliveries happens: the Alter Nos entrusts the saint and the prosecution of the party to the mayor of Chaff while the "corradore" of Cagliari is delivering the coach to that of Chaff. Three, in the afternoon, the saint takes back the road of the return to come, the day after, to his church of Cagliari waiting to the celebrations of the following year.

 

ITINERARY
FLUMINIMAGGIORE

Overcome the place Saint Angel, place of summer stay and Sunday trips, he arrives, Km 54, to the deviation, on the right, for the necropolis nuragica (prehistoric construction) and the temple of Antas. The temple, of which we can observe the substantial rests partly of the base and of the walls perimetric, some columns and some piece of mosaic, were built between the 27 a.C. and 14 AD The temple punic was built on a calcareous breakthrough around which was built a sacellum. To the inside the altar was raised, probably to open sky, constituted by a big rock delimited by walls of mud and stone of calcare. The building, directed as that punic, he is constituted by a big stairway, that covers the temple almost entirely punic, of 17 meters for 9 and from a platform of 24 meters for 10. The caves include a part, that is developed for 350 meters, surrender accessible to all through gangways in iron and a branch regarding the spelaeology, of the extension of 8 Kms., that can be visited with the assistance of specialized guides and with the use of equipments furnished by the organization in runs that have gone since 3 to the 8 hours. The run of the tourist branch has beginning with the visit to the archaeological Room, used in past as temple hipogeum and where small oil lamps can be admired offered as I vote in terracotta that they testify the religious use of the room from the slow neolithic, to the nuragico, to the punic and the roman. Easily The accessible part is concluded to the " Well Rodriquez " where an imposing column is admired tall 8 meters that one is fully grown from the meeting between a stalactite and a stalagmite and where it is there to stop on a base suspended on an abyss deep thirty meters. Ended the visit of the caves he returns each other on her government one to reach, after 4 kms., Fluminimaggiore, ancient mining center and currently closed the mines, projected toward a based economy on a tourism made of sea, of secular woods, of archaeology punic poman and of mining archaeology. Worthy to be visited the paleontological museum, place to the center of the inhabited area, that proposes a vast exposure, in seven showcases, of fossils of animals sea lived million of years ago, what trilobiti, archeocyatidi, graptoliti, brachipodi, briozoi and echinodermi (shellfishes characteristic fossils of the era inferior paleozoica) and the ethnographic museum, result in the places restructured of an old mill to water. Gone beyond the inhabited area of Fluminimaggiore, after around 10 Kms., it is reached the sea of Portixeddu and his magnificent beach of sand thin constant destination of lovers of the fishing, of the surf and of the baths in a clear and transparent sea.