Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of San Nicola di Bari
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Bortigiadas, a municipality of 800 inhabitants in the province of Sassari, celebrates its patron San Nicola di Bari (Saint Nicholas of Bari).
The name means a cork grove, and the arms say so: a cork oak, and on it twelve acorns, one for each of the main hamlets the village is made of, with two doves beside them. The place is first written down in the fourteenth century as Orticlada; in the archive of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona it appears as Gortiglaca.
Until the middle of the twentieth century they spoke Logudorese Sardinian here, a peninsula of it pushed into Gallura; today only Gallurese is spoken. The line from Sassari to Tempio and Palau crosses the territory with two stations and with one of the only two helicoidal tunnels in the Sardinian network; the passenger service stopped in 1997, and now only the Trenino Verde goes through.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Bortigiadas, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.