Patron saint festival In 218 days
Feast of Saint Julia
📅 Every year, on 22 May
On 22 May Padria, a municipality of 695 inhabitants in the province of Sassari, celebrates its patroness Saint Julia, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The village stands where Gurulis Vetus stood, the «Gouroulis Palaia» that Ptolemy names. Legend says the inhabitants left and founded Gurulis Nova, which is today's Cuglieri, at the foot of the Montiferru: the old town and the new one, and both are still there. Padria itself leans against three hills, San Giuseppe, San Paolo and San Pietro.
In the Middle Ages it was the head of the curatoria of Cabuabbas, and then the title passed to Monteleone. In the countryside there remain three Roman bridges and a silver mine the Romans worked, Salghertalzu; the comune counts thirty-nine nuraghi. The fief was redeemed in 1839, when the feudal system ended.
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Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 18 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. Accademia Carrara 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The count founded the gallery and the school together, so pupils could copy from life. Teatro Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The theatre born where wooden huts once stood, now Donizetti's home. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 18 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The lower Bergamo church with the Martinengo altarpiece, Lotto's largest. chiesa di Santo Spirito 📍 Bergamo · 17 km Bergamo church called «of the Tasso», with Lorenzo Lotto's 1521 altarpiece and the via Pignolo chapels.