At Gadoni copper was dug from the mine of Funtana Raminosa perhaps as far back as the nuragic age, and some tools found there are in the Cagliari museum; certainly until 1980. A word also comes from the mine: the technicians said poussière, dust, and the miners, who knew no French, made it prussiera. In the village they still say it, for the dust left after the blasting.
On the night between the first and the second of November they lit is fraccheras, torches of asphodel, the plant of the dead, which the young men carried through the lanes to drive off the spirits, preceded by children ringing cowbells; the rite has recently been taken up again. The other thing not lost here is sa burra, the wool blanket turned rug, still hung from the windowsills for Corpus Domini.
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📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Gadoni, a municipality of 886 inhabitants in the province of Nuoro, celebrates its patroness the Beata Vergine Assunta (Blessed Virgin of the Assumption).
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Outside Gadoni, but an easy day trip away.
