Patron saint festival In 49 days
Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Genoni celebrates its patron Saint Barbara; the town hosts the Museo del Cavallino della Giara.
The village sits on the hill of Santu Antine, and the hill is an archive: the walls of a Punic fortress, the ruins of a Romanesque church and a nuragic well thirty-nine metres deep, the deepest in Sardinia, inside which a rare Roman mechanical winch for raising water was found. On the top, perhaps, there was a temple of Juno, and the name may come from there.
Of the four thousand two hundred hectares of the Giara di Gesturi, one thousand seven hundred are Genoni's: it is the volcanic plateau where the Giara ponies run free, brought by the Phoenicians and gone wild again, now more than six hundred, with a keeping centre at Impera Lavra. At Duidduru, Miocene fossils come to the surface: the only visitable geopalaeontological site on the island.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Genoni, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.