Maggio
SASSARI
THE SARDINIAN RIDE
The
ride is a fascinating revelation of Sardinian life that proposes a splendid
showcase of the customs of the island in a magic palette of colors. Her date
is mobile and coincides with the last Sunday of May that this year it falls
23. With the Saint Efisio of Cagliari and the Feast of the Savior of Nuoro it
composes the triptych of the big parties of the island folklore.
The Sardinian Ride is one of the few occasions in which it is possible to admire
a so big number of customs, to see the performers of launeddas (tool to reeds),
one of the more ancient musical tools of the Mediterranean one, to assist to
the runs to pair, acrobatic exercises on the horses launched to the full gallop.
Since then, to every arrival of the Royal, the inhabitants of Sassari organized
the Ride, as in the April of 1929 for the passage of Victor Emmanuel III and
of Queen Helen. The parade all of horses, had opened from the representatives
of the it filled of Sassari with their characteristic Spanish custom and it
had beginning from the porticos to go in the Street Rome, passing in front of
the Building of the Province. Ten years later, in the May of 1939, another ride
had organized in honor of the crown prince Humbert of Savoia and of his wife
Maria Jose that, in the occasion, as they also made the other princesses of
Savoia that came in the island, it wore the custom of Sennori him. Is necessary
to wait for the end of the second world war to see, in 1951, another parade
of customs to Sassari, when the ride was proposed as party of welcome it perished
participants to the Congress of the Rotary Club. They participated only in the
parade deriving groups from the provinces of Sassari and Nuoro, while in the
following edition the invitation had extended to the groups of all the centers
of Sardinia. Since then the Ride became a fixed appointment even if there were
some problems from to resolve what the date, the number of the participants
and the run inside the city. To the beginning the date was that of the day of
the Ascension, but well soon this was moved to the last but one Sunday of May
to hold distant from the tantrums of the time. Nell’86 and nell’87
the run was concluded in Plaza of Italy, while nell’88 were ending of Course
in the brief rectilinear Vico, with the horses that could launch Saint to the
Plaza gallop Maria toward Plaza Saint Anthony with the construction of an artificial
footstep.
ITINERARY
HOSPITALITY TO CABRAS
Big
situated center in the part I center western of Sardinia, to north of the gulf
of Oristano, Cabras is attainable easily taking the road Torregrande - Cabras
to the height of the sanctuary of the Remedy, to the outskirts north of Oristano.
The country ties his/her name to the pond of Mar'e Pontis, to the memory of
the barons of the fish-pond, to the beautiful beaches of Saint Giovanni and
of Is Aruttas, to the characteristics huts of bog grass, to the statuettes
of the Neolithic of Cuccuru is Arrius, to the ruins 
of
the ancient city of Tharros, to the wreckages you load of lead ingots of Roman
age of the island of Ache of Abdomen, to the Byzantine testimonies of Saint
Giovanni and of Saint Savior, to the medieval memories of the installation of
Masone Capras and the rests of the castle giudicale. On May 2 is developed the
XI edition of Cycle-pedals it Ecological of the Sinis that, departing from Cabras,
is untied along the channel Scolmatore, standstill to half morning to Saint
Savior, reaches Saint Giovanni of Sinis and reenters to Saint Savior for the
lunch to the sack and games of animation. The church of Saint Savior, was built
in the XVII sec. on the same axle of the corridor and over the well, another
circular room. The different environments have illuminated from skylights and
on the walls of the cells, painted in black on white fund, figures of tied up
divinity to the cult of the waters are observed. Constituted from a central
body and from two arms cross them, while the most recent part, been building
at the end of the XI sec., it is born from the substitution of the oriental
arm with the apse and from the addition of the longitudinal aisle.
On May 9 is developed the I° Motion-assembly Regional City of Cabras. The
program foresees: at the 9 the registrations, at 11.30 o'clock the turn for
the streets of the country and the driven visit to the excavations of Tharros
and the Spanish Tower. The city of Tharros had founded from the Carbolic at
the end of the VIII sec. At 15 o'clock, in Plaza Pond, the taking the habit
of the happens Su Componidoreddu the head raced, which follows the parade for
the streets of Cabras. At 17 o'clock it has beginning the run to the star and
the pairs, acrobatic runs on coupled horses. The day is concluded at 20 o'clock
with the stripping of the head raced. The 23 of Sunday, at 10 o'clock, the National
competitions of draught are developed with the arc near the building of the
sport, while at 16 o'clock it has beginning the tournament of female kick. The
day is concluded with a melodious demonstration that she sees the share of the
national choir of him Alpine and of the Polyphonic Choir of Cabras. The profane
is mixed to the sacred with shows in plaza, games and fires of artifice.
