Feast of Saint Theodore
📅 Every year, on 9 November
On 9 November Paulilatino celebrates its patron Saint Theodore, to whom the church in the town centre is dedicated.
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Oristano has existed only since 1974, but its capital was the seat of one of the four medieval Sardinian judicates: here Eleonora of Arborea issued the Carta de Logu in the late 1300s, a legal code that stayed in force for four centuries. Its 87 municipalities take in the west coast facing the Sea of Sardinia, the lagoons of Cabras and Santa Giusta, the farmed flatland of the Campidano and inland villages, the smallest home to ninety people.
The Sinis peninsula, beyond Cabras, is the main draw: the quartz-pebble beaches of Is Arutas, the Phoenician and Punic ruins of Tharros, and the Mont'e Prama giants, colossal stone figures shown in the Cabras museum. Up the coast, Bosa spills pastel houses down to the Temo, the only navigable river in Sardinia, under a Malaspina castle. On the last Sunday of Carnival, Oristano runs the Sartiglia, a masked horse race in which riders spear a silver star at full gallop.
Towns in the province of Oristano
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87 towns
Abbasanta Aidomaggiore Albagiara Ales Allai Arborea Ardauli Assolo Asuni Baradili Baratili San Pietro Baressa Bauladu Bidonì Bonarcado Boroneddu Bosa Busachi Cabras Cuglieri Curcuris Flussio Fordongianus Ghilarza Gonnoscodina Gonnosnò Gonnostramatza Laconi Magomadas Marrubiu Masullas Milis Modolo Mogorella Mogoro Montresta Morgongiori Narbolia Neoneli Norbello Nughedu Santa Vittoria Nurachi Nureci Ollastra Oristano Capital Palmas Arborea Pau Paulilatino Pompu Riola Sardo Ruinas Sagama Samugheo San Nicolò d'Arcidano San Vero Milis Santa Giusta Santu Lussurgiu Scano di Montiferro Sedilo Seneghe Senis Sennariolo Siamaggiore Siamanna Siapiccia Simala Simaxis Sini Siris Soddì Solarussa Sorradile Suni Tadasuni Terralba Tinnura Tramatza Tresnuraghes Ulà Tirso Uras Usellus Villa Sant'Antonio Villa Verde Villanova Truschedu Villaurbana Zeddiani Zerfaliu
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Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Riola Sardo celebrates its patron Saint Martin with roasted chestnuts in the square; the town's main civic celebrations remain those of Saint Anne, on 26 July.
Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the muristenes of Sant'Agostino
📅 Every year, on 25 November
Abbasanta celebrates Saint Catherine of Alexandria on 25 November. In the countryside, the small hamlet of Sant'Agostino comes alive in August and September around the rural church and the «sos muristenes».
Feast of Saint Andrew
📅 Every year, on 30 November
On 30 November Ulà Tirso celebrates its patron Saint Andrew; it is customary to taste the new wine.