Suni

At Suni the oldest houses are cut in the rock. They are called domus de janas, houses of the janas, the small fairy-women of Sardinian tales: those at Chirisconis are part of a rock-cut necropolis, and in the territory stand the nuraghi Seneghe and Nuraddeo as well. The most recent house that can be visited, on the other hand, carries the name of the man who lived in it: it is the Casa Museo Tiu Virgiliu, and tiu in Sardinian is uncle, the title given to old men. Between the one and the other lies the whole history of the island, and the word does not change: house.

The village has passed through many hands. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the giudicato of Torres, in the curatoria of the Planargia; when the giudicato fell, in 1259 the Malaspina governed it, and in 1308 it entered the giudicato of Arborea. Around 1420 it passed to the Aragonese kingdom of Sardinia and became a fief of the Villamarina; in the 18th century the Savoy incorporated it, together with Flussio, into the marquisate of the Planargia, fief of the Paliaccio, and in 1839 the village redeemed itself from its last feudal lords. The latest move is recent: the regional law of 13 October 2003, which redrew the Sardinian provinces, took Suni from Nuoro to Oristano. Northern Logudorese is spoken here, and the territory, some forty-seven square kilometres, borders Bosa, Flussio, Modolo, Pozzomaggiore, Sagama, Sindia and Tinnura.