Places to visit in the territory of Abbasanta

For those who would like to visit the surrounding territory, on the Barigadu side, we suggest you to go to Sorradile countryside, near to the rustic church of Santa Maria, where there are about thirty Domus de Janas (Fairy Dwelling) of the IV millennium B.C.:  the access to one of them is through an entrance on the top. 
The rests of a Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter have been found on the Monte Onnariu, considered a sacred place since  prehistory.  It goes back to the I century B.C. and, until today, it is the only temple existing in Sardinia dedicated to this divinity.

In the cemetery of Bidonì, instead, you can visit the small but beautiful church of San Pietro apostle, constructed with trachyte blocks of the XII century, and the museum "S' Omo ' e sa Majarza", where are kept the texts of ancient legends and tales of witches, devils, elves, witchcraft and magic (black and white), going back also to the Roman Empire.  Some passages of the book "Malleus Maleficarum" (that means "the hammer of the witches") are analyzed more in depth. This book was published in 1486, and became the inquisitors’ guide in case of presumed witchcraft.  Xilografie from the period between the XIV to XVI century A.C. makes the visit even more intriguing .  A room of the museum proposes the cavern of a Sardinian witch from 1500,  prosecuted and tortured between the 1596 and 1606 in Sassari.  In an other room, it is possible to admire "su carru de sos mortos" (the deaths’ wagon):  in the antiquity it was believed that it moved on its own, squeaking, to transport the defunct spirits 

Not far away from Bidonì, there is the sanctuary dedicated to Santa Maria de Ossolo, built in the XVII century.  The rustic church of Santa Lucia, is instead located between the towns of Assolo and Senis, in a area well known to the prehistoric populations for the presence of obsidian deposits.  The archaeological diggings within and around the church brought back to light an ancient roman thermal system and the rests of a early Christian cemetery (IV-V century a.C.).  Some structures, perhaps going back to the beginning of the XI century, testify the existence of a monastery and of a church dedicated to San Giorgio.