Patron saint festival In 308 days
Feast of Sant'Elena
📅 Every year, on 18 August
On 18 August Gonnosnò, a municipality of 800 inhabitants in the province of Oristano, celebrates its patroness Sant'Elena (Saint Helena).
In 1678, in the hamlet of Figu, the first Monte granatico in Sardinia was founded: a store that lent seed corn to the peasants and had it back with the harvest. The name Figu almost certainly comes from the fig trees, which were plentiful here; though there are those who trace it to a legendary bandit of that name.
The comune's own name has had a chequered life. In 1928 Gonnosnò and Figu were joined to Baressa; in 1947 they were split off again as the comune of Figu-Gonnosnò, and in 1964 the first half of the name fell away. As for Gonnosnò, the first part is a pre-Latin word meaning a height; for the second the learned tradition offers the Greek neòs, temple, or else new.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.