The name is a mulberry: it comes from the Sardinian mura, the mulberry fruit, and vera, meaning cultivated and edible. The first settlement in all likelihood stood right on the sea, and had to move back from it to escape the corsairs' attacks; between the end of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth the Spanish put up the towers still visible from the beaches, the Saline tower, the Ten Horses tower and the Capo Ferrato tower. In the church of San Nicola di Bari, built around 1500 in late Gothic style, a chiselled silver cross is kept: it was given by a man who had been a prisoner of the Saracens and who, having bought back his freedom, wanted to leave something behind.
Then there are the small things, which tell you more about the town than the monuments do. Near piazza Sant'Antonio stands the Portico Petretto, a stone structure of the late nineteenth century built as an arch supporting a balconied passage: it served to connect two neighbouring houses, so that nobody had to cross the street during the downpours. Outside the town, to the south-west, the forest of Baccu Arrodas is still reached by the old cart track along which the carts once carried ore from an antimony and silver mine. And since February 1961 the citrus fair has been held, the feast of what people here actually live on.
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📅 Every year, on 6 December; since 1961 the Citrus Fruit Feast
Muravera celebrates Saint Nicholas of Bari on 6 December. The Sagra degli Agrumi, the town's most important event, has been held since February 1961 on the initiative of citrus growers and the local Pro Loco.
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