Patron saint festival In 283 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Ittireddu, a municipality of 580 inhabitants in the province of Sassari, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Sardinia is the Italian region that shakes least, and the strongest earthquake ever recorded on its mainland had its epicentre here: the Logudoro quake of 1870, put at between the fifth and the sixth degree of the Mercalli scale. The village sits on a hill called monte Ruiu, red mountain, among reliefs of volcanic origin.
The church of Santa Croce is Byzantine, and in the countryside there remain a Roman bridge that people here call ponte 'etzu, the old bridge, and some cisterns cut into the rock at Olensas — perhaps used for pressing olives. On monte Zuighe, around the year one thousand, there were a village and a castle which had already vanished by the time the Aragonese arrived. The civic museum holds together the archaeology and the peasants' tools.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Bagni di Cefalà Diana 📍 Cefalà Diana · 8.4 km The only Islamic bathhouse still standing in Sicily: four sunken pools and a worn Kufic band Monte Porcara 📍 Bagheria · 16 km 388-metre mountain above Bagheria: walls and necropolis of a Hellenised indigenous settlement, perhaps ancient Paropo. Castello di Misilmeri 📍 Misilmeri · 17 km An Arab-Norman fortress built by Emir Jafar II between 998 and 1019 overlooking the Eleuterio River valley. Villa Valguarnera 📍 Bagheria · 18 km Eighteenth-century villa in Bagheria begun in 1712: key-shaped plan, frescoed salons and the Montagnola hill. Villa Palagonia 📍 Bagheria · 19 km Bagheria's villa of the monsters, which unsettled Goethe and entered Faust. Torre Amalfitano 📍 Bagheria · 17 km Farm tower in Bagheria, probably thirteenth-century, rebuilt in 1546: water cistern, warehouse and crenellated terrace.