Patron saint festival
Feast of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary
📅 Every year, on 7 October
On 7 October Bottidda celebrates its patron, the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary; the town also hosts the Museo del Territorio, dedicated to local history.
Twenty-six nuraghi are counted in this territory, each with its own name, and a giants' tomb; one of them stands on the top of the hill above the village and has given it its name, Sa Corona. At the place called S'Orculana there is a thousand-year-old wild olive: at the base the trunk spreads out for seventeen metres, and the crown reaches eight.
On Monte Rasu rose the first Franciscan convent of the island: tradition has it founded around 1220 by Giovanni Parenti, a disciple of Francis of Assisi. The name of the village comes from far off: it was first Gossilla, or Gocilla, and from Gocilla it went to Gotilla, Botilla, Botidda and at last Bottidda.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.