Patron saint festival In 318 days
Feast of San Giovanni Battista
📅 Every year, on 29 August
On 29 August Ussassai, a municipality of 599 inhabitants in the province of Nuoro, celebrates its patron San Giovanni Battista.
The railway crosses the territory, but the station of Ussassai stands nine kilometres from the village: the Trenino Verde, which since 1997 has run only as a tourist service, passes among the Tacchi, the limestone outcrops that make this piece of Ogliastra so steep. The village lies at seven hundred metres on the slopes of monte Arcuerì.
Outside the houses stands the country church of the Santissimo Salvatore, Romanesque-Byzantine of the twelfth century, and around it the cumbessias, the little stone houses where people sleep during the feast. There are two of them, a fortnight apart: the Saviour on 12 September and Saint Jerome on the 30th. The fief, taken into the duchy of Mandas in 1604, was redeemed in 1839.
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certosa di Parma 📍 Parma · 8.3 km The charterhouse of Stendhal's title, now a police school and rarely open. Parma Baptistery 📍 Parma · 11 km Benedetto Antelami’s pink marble masterpiece, a European landmark bridging Romanesque and Gothic design in Parma. arco di San Lazzaro 📍 Parma · 9.8 km Arch of San Lazzaro in Parma, built in 1628 on via Emilia Est, restored in 2005. chiesa di San Sepolcro 📍 Parma · 11 km The Holy Sepulchre canons' church on the via Emilia, with a coffered ceiling. abbazia di San Giovanni Evangelista 📍 Parma · 11 km Correggio's second dome in Parma, and the Benedictine pharmacy with its jars in rows. teatro Farnese 📍 Parma · 12 km The Farnese wooden theatre in the Pilotta, inaugurated with a naval battle in the stalls.