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Saint Lawrence, patron of the hillside hamlet
📅 Every year, on 9 and 11 August, in the hamlet of San Lorenzo
The hamlet of San Lorenzo, in Budoni, celebrates its patron, Saint Lawrence, on 9 and 11 August.
In the territory there are two domus de janas, the prehistoric tombs cut into the rock between the fourth and the third millennium before Christ, and they matter above all for where they are: they are the last north-eastern attestation of a kind of tomb found across almost all of Sardinia. A little further north, entering Gallura, there are none at all in the whole north-eastern quarter of the island. From the nuragic age there remain at least two single-tower nuraghi, near the hamlets of Solità and Ottiolu, still little studied. Of the Roman centuries the only written evidence is the Antonine Itinerary, which lists the stations of the road from Portu Tibula to Caralis: after Olbia come Coclearia and Portus Luguidonis, which scholars place among today's comuni of San Teodoro, Budoni and Posada, but of those centres no trace remains in the place names and their exact position is still debated.
In the Middle Ages the land belonged to the giudicato of Gallura and then to Pisa: the Liber fondachi, a Pisan tax register of the early fourteenth century, lists north of Posada many small tributary villas, which vanished in the following centuries and are hard to place today — Sullay, Sortinissa, Erisquion and Tamarispa, the only one whose name survives and which is now a hamlet. After the Aragonese conquest of 1324 the whole area entered the county of Montalbo, administered from Posada; the lands further north were classed as salti, that is peripheral wooded ground, good for letting pigs run free under the acorn-bearing oaks and for gathering wood, and were rented by the season to transhumant shepherds. Those shepherds came both from the southern interior, from Bitti and Lodè, and from the north, from Tempio: which is why two languages meet in Budoni, and in the southern half of the comune people speak Logudorese while in the northern half they speak Gallurese. It was those herding families, settling for good between the seventeen and the eighteen hundreds, who formed the first nuclei of the scattered hamlets that still make up the comune.
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Patron saint festival In 304 days
Saint Anthony of Padua, patron of Solità
📅 Every year, at the end of the second week of August, in the hamlet of Solità
The hamlet of Solità, in Budoni, celebrates its patron, Saint Anthony of Padua, at the end of the second week of August.
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Saint John the Baptist, patron of Budoni
📅 Every year, on 29 August
Budoni celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 29 August, in the church dedicated to him.
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Near Budoni
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Budoni, 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.