Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Senis, a municipality of 479 inhabitants in the province of Oristano, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
The barony of Senis, in the Middle Ages inside the curatoria of Parte Valenza in the giudicato of Arborea, became after 1420 something to be bought and sold: the first lord, Luigi Ludovico Pontos, was appointed by king Alfonso V the Magnanimous; in 1421 the fief was bought by Francesco Carbonell, and in 1432 by Pietro Joffrè, who had the king grant him a rare privilege, that of leaving the inheritance to his daughters if there were no sons. The last family, the Nin Zatrillas, were bought out in 1839.
In the territory there are eight nuraghi and a prehistoric flint quarry, the raw material blades were made from; until the thirteenth century the village was protected by a castle on the hill of Funtana Menta, of which nothing is left, while from the seventeenth century the remains of the baronial park and the Spanish fountain survive. From 1928 to 1950 Senis had no town hall of its own: it had been attached to the neighbouring municipality of Nureci.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Senis, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.