October
ARITZO
"THE FESTIVAL OF THE CHESTNUTS AND HAZELNUTS"
From
well 29 years, the last Sunday of October (that this year falls 25) it is developed,
to Aritzo, the feast of the chestnuts and filberts. This demonstration has let
know to the thousand of persons that in these years they have crowded the center
of the Barbagia, the walnuts, the chestnuts, the filberts typical of the zone
and the innumerable and savory sweets that with them they manufacture each other.
The program of the party is articulated in three days, from the Friday to the
Sunday, with musical shows and distribution of filberts and chestnuts roast
and you boil. Splendidly organized from I For-rent it local and with the sponsorship
of the principal regional institutions, not only the feast is the occasion to
expose and to sell the products of the Barbagia of Belvì, but also the
occasion to know better present cultural, environmental and artistic good in
the whole territory they climb on. To arrive from Cagliari to Aritzo, is had
to cross the Road actually National 131 Charles Felice to the Km 41, to divert
for Barumini, to overcome Nurallao, Laconi and, joints in the roadman's House
of Ortuabis, to turn on the right for the country. If it originates from Sassari
and Oristano, on the Road National 131 Encore, to the height of Ghilarza, it
is diverted for Busachi and they are crossed the countries of Ortueri, they
Rise, Tonara and Belvì. If it arrives from Nuoro the fast slide he is
taken for Lanusei and it is diverted for Fonni to reach Tonara, Belvì
and Aritzo. Dominated by the Mont'e Cresia, once covered from a wood of oaks
so much sharp pain from to let define it "the garden of Sardinia",
Aritzo has a territory in which sweets valleys covered of trees of chestnut
tree and filberts are alternated to steep glen, bare tops, forests of oaks,
brushwood and luxuriant stain. Aritzo is famous for the industry of the snow,
that actually at the end of last century you/he/she has constituted one of the
principal occupations of the inhabitants of Aritzo. This activity took place
up to the first decades of this century and, in fact, in all the parties of
country and rural of the island, close to the nougats of Tonara and to the sellers
of mullets of Cabras, they were you always introduce the producers of sherbet
of Aritzo to sell their ice cream manufactured with natural snow, the famous
one “Carapigna.” Up to not a long time ago, in the territory of Aritzo
different churches rose, but all has been demolished or you allows to go in
downfall done exception for that devoted Anthony to Saint from Padua, that goes
up again to the ‘600. From the opposite part of the road, in comparison
to the Parish one, the staircases of Sa Bòvida are issued also known
as Street Imprisons, that conduct to an old man and thick building realized
with stone of schist and wood of chestnut tree, turned to jail up to the years
40. From to visit the Museum of the Traditions and Popular Arts that it is not
limited to a soldier harvest of objects of the arts and popular works, but it
documents sour-silvo-pastoral culture, that handicraft of the boxes and that
of the commerce in more places with particular attention to the production of
the Carapigna, what the tubs that contained the mixed snow to hay and salt where
they were let rotate the ice-cream freezer of zinc and to whose inside was formed
the sherbet.
ALGHERO
AND ITS OWN COAST
The
itinerary of this month is developed to Alghero the laughing town of the coast
of the coral. From Porto Torres, Alghero can be reached taking the road of the
two seas while if it originates from the rest of Sardinia the Road National
131 Charles Felice he is being taken and it is taken the National Road 291 to
the height of Sassari. A little anymore before the Door it is found to sea through
which is entered in the old city and in the long one and tightened Civic Plaza
with the Building of Albis, notable exemplary of architecture Catalan - Five
hundred aragonese. To the right extremity of the plaza the Cathedral rises,
kind in different times: the bell tower and the underlying choir were begun
in 1552 inspiring each other to the noblest exemplary of the slow Gothic - Catalan,
while the jobs were having alone term in 1730. Returned on the Civic plaza the
street Charles Alberto he/she is taken, her principal of Alghero,
with the church of Saint Francis, erect in the XIV, widened in the XV and reconstructed
in the XVIII century with to the inside an attractive cloister. On the right
of the plaza it races the waterfront Mark Polo and, after the Tower Saint James,
the waterfront Christopher Columbus that it is united some sec to the Spanish
bastions. From plaza Sulis is been able us ' to direct on the left for street
XX Settembre and immediately to the left for street Regina Elena and to follow
the layout of the ancient boundaries of which varied towers remain. The principal
tower of the nuraghe (prehistoric construction) it is referable to the 1100
a.C. while the secondary tower was being added in the VIII sec. a.C. Returned
to the bifurcation, him continuous on the other side crossing the long promontory
that he closes to west I Bring Count and it finishes with the promontory of
Head it Chases. Few before the lighthouse, is met on the right the panoramic
road that climbs to the right edge of the promontory, from which the spectacular
Island Foradada is perceived crossed by a big natural gallery. The road finishes
in a wide square of which part go out him her of the Cabirol, a stairway of
well 656 steps what it brings, using partly a natural ledge, to the Cave of
Neptune, dug by the waters in the calcareous rocks of the Cretaceous period,
whose age is inclusive between 135 and 65 thousand years. The cave has a total
development of 2.500 meters, numerous rooms, ample galleries, clear little ponds,
deep wells and narrow burrows that make it very complex and one of the most
interesting and valuable of the whole basin of the Mediterranean. To around
10 Kms from Alghero, on the road for Porto Torres, the Necropolis of Anghelu
Ruju is found, one of the vast necropolises of Sardinia with 38 hypogeas and
referable to the recent Neolithic (3.000 a.Cs.). From I Bring Count they reach
each other in few minutes of raft the places of immersion of Head Hunting and
Point Lily, where a big concentration of submerged caves and spectacular and
tall cliffs there is to peak on the sea. The immersions in these caves are unique
in the kind for their great beauty and the big quantity of life that entertain:
here the red coral is already found to four meters deep while it is being easy
to meet the characteristic and interesting kinds of the Mediterranean, lobsters,
lobsters, the epinephelus, corvine, the moray and provision the sea from protagonists.
