Feast of Saint Gavinus
📅 Every year, on 25 October
On 25 October Oniferi celebrates its patron Saint Gavinus; the town is a living center of the canto a tenore tradition, a UNESCO World Heritage element.
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Created by decree in 1927, Nuoro is among the most thinly populated provinces in Italy: 74 municipalities and barely over two hundred thousand people across a vast slice of eastern Sardinia, the smallest village down to 230 residents. The capital, also called Nuoro, is the largest town and still counts under forty thousand inhabitants, so no single city sets the tone. From the Barbagia highlands the land drops to the Tyrrhenian coast within a few dozen kilometres.
Most people arrive along the sea: Orosei and Dorgali on the gulf, Siniscola to the north, Tortolì towards Ogliastra, and Cala Goloritzé, the pebble cove a landslide opened in 1962 below the cliffs of Baunei. Inland is where the province makes sense: Oliena under the Supramonte, Fonni, and Orgosolo, whose walls have carried more than 150 murals since 1969. In Nuoro, the house where Grazia Deledda was born, winner of the 1926 Nobel, is now a museum.
Towns in the province of Nuoro
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74 towns
Aritzo Arzana Atzara Austis Bari Sardo Baunei Belvì Birori Bitti Bolotana Borore Bortigali Cardedu Desulo Dorgali Dualchi Elini Fonni Gadoni Gairo Galtellì Gavoi Girasole Ilbono Irgoli Jerzu Lanusei Lei Loceri Loculi Lodè Lodine Lotzorai Lula Macomer Mamoiada Meana Sardo Noragugume Nuoro Capital Oliena Ollolai Olzai Onanì Onifai Oniferi Orani Orgosolo Orosei Orotelli Ortueri Orune Osidda Osini Ottana Ovodda Perdasdefogu Posada Sarule Silanus Sindia Siniscola Sorgono Talana Tertenia Teti Tiana Tonara Torpè Tortolì Triei Ulassai Urzulei Ussassai Villagrande Strisaili
The top 2 places in Nuoro
Our editors' ranking: the area's most important places, drawn from the individual town guides. See the national rankings →
1 🏖️ Beaches & sea Cala Goloritzé 📍 Baunei Born of a 1962 landslide, under a 143-metre pinnacle: reachable on foot only, and by booking. 
2 ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries Chiesa della Madonna della Solitudine 📍 Nuoro The Nuoro church on the road to Ortobene where Grazia Deledda rests, with Tavolara's bronze door. Nuoro and around, on the map
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🏖️ Seaside 7 🏘️ Villages 4 🏝️ Islands 1 🏛️ UNESCO heritage 1
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Feast of Saint Gavinus
📅 Every year, on 25 October
On 25 October Gavoi celebrates its patron Saint Gavinus; the municipal territory preserves nuragic remains, including the Nuraghe Littoleri.
Feast of Saint Leonard
📅 Every year, on 6 November
On 6 November Dualchi celebrates its patron Saint Leonard with riders on horseback circling his church, led by the capocorsa carrying the saint's banner.
Feast of Saint Antiochus
📅 Every year, on 13 November
On 13 November Atzara celebrates its patron Saint Antiochus; the municipal territory preserves nuragic remains, including the Nuraghe Abbagadda.