Patron saint festival
Our Lady of Montserrat and the Sagra di San Giovanni
📅 Every year, on 8 September; the Sagra di San Giovanni in July, at Sa Marina
Bari Sardo celebrates Our Lady of Montserrat on 8 September, in the church dedicated to her.
Bari Sardo has 3,938 inhabitants in the Ogliastra, some fifty metres above the sea. The old name is Barì, probably pre-Roman Sardinian, and the «Sardo» arrived only in 1862, when a decree of Victor Emmanuel II set it beside Bari to avoid confusion with the Apulian city. In Roman times there was a garrison here called Custodia Rubriensis, from the name of the Rubrenses who lived in these lands.
The village was born in the early Middle Ages, when people withdrew four kilometres from the coast to escape Vandals and Saracens; on the shore, instead, after 1572 the tower was built that stands today on the municipal coat of arms, twelve and a half metres of truncated cone with fifteen kilometres of view, from Capo Bella Vista to Capo Sferracavallo. In the territory there are fourteen nuraghi and the giants' tombs of Canali, Uli and Pitzu Teccu. The local craft is weaving: carpets, cushions and linen blankets worked a pibiónis.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Bari Sardo, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.