Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Nurri celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel; the village also preserves the church of Santa Rosa da Viterbo.
Nurri lies in the Sarcidano district, and its countryside is scattered with domus de janas and nuraghi: the area was inhabited long before anyone put it on a map. Beside the village stood Biora, a Roman settlement founded with a precise task, to contain the raids of the inland tribes. It was, in effect, a frontier garrison, and the frontier ran right through here.
In the Middle Ages the village belonged to the giudicato of Cagliari and to the curatoria of Siurgus, then to the judges of Arborea, then to Pisa by testament; with the Aragonese conquest it became a fief of the Carroz family and in 1604 it was absorbed into the duchy of Mandas, bought out only in 1839 when the feudal system ended. Mandas returns a second time, unexpectedly: the railway crossing the territory is the Mandas-Arbatax line, and since 1997 only tourist trains run on it, stopping north of the village.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.