Florinas

On the arms of the comune there is a silver mask: it is the decorative mask applied to a Roman bronze statuette, perhaps a Hermes, of the second century before Christ, found out in the countryside at Giorrè. The emblem of the village is therefore the picture of an object that came out of its own ground. And there is a good deal down there: the nuraghe Corvos, with its main tower and a wall carrying two more, the necropolis of Pedras Serradas, the domus de janas of Sa Rocca 'e su Lampu, the tomb of Campu Lontanu. In Roman times there was an oppidum here of some weight.

In the Middle Ages Florinas was the head of its own curatoria, inside the giudicato of Torres. When the giudicato fell, in 1259, Pisans and Genoese fought over it, and after Meloria it went to the Doria and then to the Malaspina, who built a castle here; then to the Aragonese, who tied it to the barony of Ploaghe — and there it stayed until 1839, when with the abolition of feudalism the village bought itself back from the Aymerich, the last feudatories. In between it had taken a lively part in the Sardinian risings against the feudal lords of 1794 and 1795. In the church of Santa Croce there is a wooden retablo of the early sixteen hundreds with three canvases by a Florentine inside it, Baccio Gorini: a Crucifixion signed and dated 1619, a Flagellation and a Road to Calvary.