Santu Lussurgiu - Italy

Santu Lussurgiu (OR)

Sardinia (Italy)

At 500 meters altitude on the eastern side of Montiferru, Santulussurgiu lies in an amphitheater on the edge of a volcanic crater surrounded by olive groves.
Interesting old town with streets and small squares uphill overlooked beautiful stone houses with several floors, plastered with bright colors from yellow to wine red saffron.
Some have decorated lintels and wrought iron balconies.
Via Roma, in a mansion of the eighteenth century, opens its 11 rooms of the Museum of farming technology made by the Centre for Popular Culture and visited by appointment.
Author of the collection on Mastru Salis Salis Master, that in twenty years he has collected over 2,000 items that belonged to the civilization and traditions of the country.
The museum's leadership, or the volunteers who help him, is like traveling back in time.
Room after room resurface objects used daily by farmers, shepherds and coal miners who worked at the foot of Montiferru.
Particularly interesting section of spinning and weaving, cooking and crafts section with an unusual ellissografo.
Also interesting is the wine room with a fulling mill, pre-industrial tool used to soften and shrink the fabric.
In the area of Santulussurgiu he worked over forty.
In the upper part of town is the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, which keeps inside a beautiful altar of carved wood.
In town there are still craftsmen who specialize in the manufacture of knives or horse harness (clamps, saddles and leather boots).
A Carnival of the road opposite the museum, called Sa Carrela 'e Nanti, is the scene of a frantic race to pair of horses led by riders in costume.
Surroundings: a few kilometers there is a forest of pines and oaks that surround the village of San Leonardo de Siete Fuentes, famous for the presence of radioactive water from seven springs and diuretic seven fountains that flow at a constant temperature of 11 degrees .
The seven streams through a grove destination for Sunday outings.
In the middle of is the small church of San Leonardo belonged to the Knights of Malta.
Trachyte dark, was built in the twelfth century but its present Romanesque-Gothic is due to a restructuring of the next century.
The interior has a nave, retains signs of the congregation.
Opposite the church is a small town library.
In early June, St. Leonard hosts an exhibition of saddle horses.