Patron saint festival In 301 days
Feast of Saint Susanna
📅 Every year, on 11 August
On 11 August Osini, a municipality of 811 inhabitants in the province of Nuoro, celebrates its patroness Saint Susanna (Santa Susanna).
In November 1951 a flood destroyed the village, and Osini was rebuilt a kilometre further off. The new village is made almost entirely of small blocks divided into flats, because people needed a roof in a hurry. Of the old one there remain the sixteenth-century church of Santa Susanna, still in use, the presbytery, a few houses put back on their feet, and a great many ruins.
Above the village opens the Scala di San Giorgio. A life of the saint written in 1117 tells that the bishop, coming to the foot of an impassable mountain and thinking of the hardship of poor travellers, prayed, and a narrow passage opened in the rock; then he made a spring rise beside it as well. People live long here: between 2024 and 2025, among fewer than seven hundred inhabitants, there were eight centenarians.
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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.