Selegas

Selegas is in the Trexenta, and its land has been lived in since nuragic and Roman times. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the giudicato of Cagliari, in the curatoria of Trexenta. When that giudicato fell, in 1258, the territory passed for a short time to Arborea; then something unusual happened: in 1295 the judge Mariano II left the lands of the former giudicato of Cagliari by will to the republic of Pisa. In 1324 they passed to the Aragonese, together with all the villages of the old curatorie of Trexenta and Gippi. The village was then given in administration, and later in fief, to a Catalan family; at the end of the fourteen hundreds it was joined to the county of Villasor, and in the fifteen hundreds that county became a marquisate.

In 1703 Artale de Alagón gave the fief to his daughter Isabella, who had married a Da Silva, and it was from the Da Silva-Alagón that the village bought itself free in 1839, when feudalism was abolished. In the twentieth century the map moved again: from 1928 to 1946 the comuni of Ortacesus and Guamaggiore were aggregated to Selegas, and for eighteen years the village administered three instead of one. On the coat of arms, granted much later, there are five ears of wheat and a nuraghe — and the nuraghe is drawn ruined, broken across the shield: the village put its own ruin into its arms.