Villa Verde has borne that name only since 1954. Before it was Bànnari, then, from 1868, Bànnari d'Usellus; in Sardinian it remains Bàini. The comune too has come and gone: set up in the nineteenth century, it was abolished in 1927 and joined to Usellus together with Albagiara and Escovedu, and regained its independence in 1947. It lies on the north-eastern side of Monte Arci, the volcanic massif that obsidian comes from: flakes and worked tools are found here in quantity from the Neolithic onwards, and three obsidian spearheads have ended up on the municipal arms.
There are some twenty nuraghi here, and the most notable is the complex of Brunk'e s'Omu, with tower and village left standing inside the wood of Mitza Margiani. Of the Romans there remain a stretch of road running through the wood and a vertical kiln for firing pottery. The rest is water and timber: abundant springs — Mitza Margiani, Santu Mauru, Gergui — and, higher up, holm oaks and cork oaks, while lower down the pastures and cornfields begin. On the coat of arms, beside the obsidian points, are a buzzard and seven ears of wheat.
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