Fluminimaggiore has 2,966 inhabitants in the Iglesiente, and its territory climbs from the sea at Portixeddu up to the slopes of Monte Linas. On the coast there is a cove still called Guardia is Turcus, the watch of the Turks, and the name is not a whim: in 1650 a Barbary raid destroyed the village. It was refounded only in 1704, a little further from the sea, when the viscount Asquer and his wife Eleonora Gessa granted the deed to rebuild the ancient village of Flumini Major; the first inhabitants came from the area of Terralba.
About ten kilometres from the town stands the temple of Antas, Punic and then Roman, with a nuragic village beside it and the quarries from which the Romans took their stone; the same old Roman road leads to the caves of Su Mannau, with their hanging lakes. The rest of the modern story here is the mine: the village grew in the second half of the nineteenth century thanks to the diggings, it was at the heart of the workers' struggles of the early twentieth century — the ones that led to the Buggerru massacre of September 1904 — and with the end of the mines it began to lose people again.
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📅 Every year, on 13 June; the Antas Music Festival between July and August
Fluminimaggiore celebrates the patronal feast of Saint Anthony of Padua on 13 June. Between July and August, the Antas Music Festival is held, at the Punic-Roman temple of the same name.
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Outside Fluminimaggiore, but an easy day trip away.
