Places to visit in the territory of Villanovaforru

Passing by Collinas, it is worth visit the rustic church dedicated to Santa Maria Angiargia, situated in a wood to which the popular beliefs have given a magic meaning. On the 7th of september, in Collinas, the procession of Saint Maria Angiargia crosses the town terminating to the rustic church dedicated to the Saint. The simulacrum is carried by the faithful people altogether with a group of individuals in local costume.


At 300 meters from the Naturalistic Museum of the Territory, in Lunamatrona there is a prehistoric site in which stands out the “Su Quaddu de Nixias” tomb of the giants. Lunamatrona boasts three beautiful churches: the parish of San Giovanni Batista (XVI century), the church of Santa Maria (XIV) and the little church of San Sebastiano, This locality of the Marmilla, in June remembers the ancient traditions games such as the "badrunfa" (a wooden spinning top that is make to turn with a string) and "su tirollasticu" (competitions of throwing things with a sling).

”Sa Domu ‘e S’Orku” tomb of giants in Siddi is one of the most important of Sardinia. It is for sure one of the most imposing funerary monuments of the nuragic age. In Sa Fogaia communal Park is present a good example of “a corridoio” (hallway) nuragh. In this town, it is worth stopping to San Michele Arcangelo church (XII century) and to the parochial church of Maria Vergine (XVIII century). In the ancient Casa Steri, in the historical centre of Siddi there is the Museum of Sardinia alimentary traditions. The Casa Steri, is a typical "a corte" construction, according to the Campidanese tradition, beyond the agro-pastoral tools we can admired objects, instruments and atmospheres that enable us to explore the ancient habits and the alimentary traditions of the Island. It presents an ambient subdivision (those inhabited and those used for work for example the transformation of the agro-pastoral products or as animals shelter ) and of "lolle". The Ornithological Museum of Sardinia, instead, was built in 1800 and restructured in the last century. It is possible to admire more than 250 spices of resident and migratory birds, and the principal mammals of Sardinia.

A Gonnostramatza, finally, we find the Museo of “Turcus e Morus” (Turks and Moors) invasions in Sardinia, on the Monte Granatico. Miniatures of coastal towers and constructions, sailing ships, soldiers, dioramas and panels tell us about stories and personages.