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Qui riposa la Regina
Viaggio nella valle dei conetti vulcanici e delle fortificazioni medievali

Punto di partenza: Villamassargia
Tappe intermedie: Gioiosa Guardia, S’Ortu Mannu
Punto di arrivo: Villamassargia
Difficoltà: bassa
Altitudine: 120-393 m s.l.m.
Lunghezza: 8,2 km Tempo di percorrenza: 5 ore circa

Villamassargia ha origini antiche. Il suo nome deriva dal latino villa massaius, ovvero paese di massai-agricoltori, ma le sue origini risalgono al 3500 a.C. periodo al quale si riferiscono i primi ritrovamenti che confermano la presenza dell’uomo in questi luoghi.
Villamassargia è terra di regine e questo percorso, da fare insieme ad una guida, ne racconterà le storie, le origini, il valore – ancora custodito nei racconti e nelle tradizioni delle genti locali.
La prima regina è la valle del Cixerri , in cui Villamassargia si trova. Con i suoi conetti vulcanici (il Monte Exi, il domo di Gioiosa Guardia, il Monte Truxionis e il domo di Acquafredda, in provincia di Cagliari), circondati da boschi di eucalyptus trees and conifers, the Valley features of a rare geological and palaeogeography, as in Italy is the only evidence of the earliest stages of the Paleozoic continental.
After a short path to reach the dome of andesite Gioiosa Guardia, where at the beginning of the twelfth century fort was built of the same name. Besides the castle, landscape towards the plateau offers a natural environment surrounded by Mediterranean vegetation alternating pasture land. The history of this place find space in history for three centuries from 1300, when the whole country was under the control of the noble family of the Counts of Donoratico Gherardesca. Now the foot of the main tower remain only a few ruins and the sound of the wind to reach it and climb for about a mile on the flanks of the hill in the thick vegetation. On a clear day you can see the other medieval fortifications that were part of a unique defensive Castle of Salvaterra Iglesias, Acquafredda Siliqua and more distant to the castle of St. Michael in the city of Cagliari. The second queen
rest quiet for over 500 years. Sa Reina, the queen in fact, has a trunk circumference of more than 16 meters. E ' the oldest olive tree in Sardinia and holds the twelve hectares of' historic olive grove of S'Ortu Mannu : seven hundred specimens grafted between 1300 and 1600 that still belong to individual households in Villamassargia and which produce a refined oil. The trunks writhing strong and majestic, the light that filters through their hair full of fruit make it unique atmosphere.
The other queens of the path are revealed through the alleys of Villamassargia: the Madonna del Pilar and the Madonna della Neve . These two churches were both followed in the fourteenth-century works by master builder of Arzocco Garnas but developed with different stylistic features.
The church dedicated to Our Lady of Pilar Roman-Gothic facade has a classically refined by a soaring bell tower with two pointed lights. At the entrance to a fine stone font, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth century. The church of Santa Maria della Neve (the parish) is to mark its beautiful rose window and Cistercian Gothic-Catalan. Inside is a fine polychrome wooden altar of the eighteenth century.
Just outside, while walking in the shadow of the portals typical of the era Massai Aragonese that decorate the winding lanes of old town houses built with bricks of unfired clay, is accompanied by the voices of the typical hand-loom: the rustling, the creaking and rumbling three stalwart of the sudden when the weaver beats the texture of the wool and the Horde. The weavers, Villamassargia queens, with their work make this country the largest producer in the typical Sardinian carpet woven with hand looms.

Operators Recommended:
Sulcis Explorer Hubert Zoboli
Via Gramsci n. 199 Carbonia (CI),
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WHERE TO STAY:
S'Ortu Mannu Agriturismo Casa Mia
Loc . S'Ortu Mannu
09010 - Villamassargia
Phone: 349 5620692
info@agriturismosortumannu.com
www.agriturismosortumannu.com

WHERE TO EAT: Restaurant
Gazebo Medieval
via Musio, 21
09016 Iglesias (CA) Tel 078130871

www.gazebomedioevale.it

DEPTH:
S'Ortu Mannu
About three kilometers from the town of Villamassargia is the large olive grove called S'Ortu Mannu. The olive grove, now park in 2001, covers an area of \u200b\u200btwelve acres, but according to the memory of the villagers, the area covered by trees until the first half of the twentieth century was about five hundred acres.
struck by the majesty of the plants, the largest olive tree, commonly called Sa Reina (the Queen) has a perimeter of nearly sixteen meters and this tree is considered by some as the largest in the Mediterranean olive . It is not unusual to see individual trees and majestic olive trees, but S'Ortu Mannu one can speak of an entire forest .
are about 600 olive trees-that is, domestic production of olive oil, whose magnitude is unique.
The olive tree is durable and strong, that with his exceptional ability vegetation is well adapted to dry soil.
(the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, there would be a dozen olive trees dating back to the first century.)
It is assumed that the Queen is a plant more than a thousand years.
This grove has a great natural and until the establishment of the park had an interesting situation, in fact, the property of individual plants could not match that of the land upon which those were . This situation was confirmed in 28 of the Rules of urban police of the town of Villamassargia 1932.
As handed down by elders of the land, the owner of the tree as such they could also enjoy and have for sale of property upon death. Then boasted a number of rights against the owner of the soil could enter the fund for the benefit of others because of the tree consisted of a right of way on the soil in which it rose, and could reap the benefits, follow the steps di potatura e innestare gli oleastri o i polloni che spuntassero dal tronco. Inoltre, per non gravare troppo sul diritto del proprietario del suolo le operazioni di potatura si compivano contemporaneamente alla raccolta dei frutti.
Il regolamento precisa che quasi la totalità della popolazione era proprietaria di piante , da ciò sembra emergere una valenza “comunitaria” del posto ove ciascuna famiglia possedeva una o più piante.
(tratto da N.G. Dessì - http://www.sortumannu.com/)