Turri is one of the saffron villages: here the red gold is grown in earnest, and on the second Sunday of November they hold a festival for it. The other thing that grows well is the olive: in the district called molinu, at the entrance to the village, stands the largest concentration of centuries-old olive trees in all Sardinia, about two hundred plants in a little more than two hectares.
One square in the village is still called Pratza de Presoni, the square of the prison, because a Spanish prison really was there: the parish death registers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries say so. In an old Campidanese house of the Accalai family the municipality has made a house museum, with the tools, the bedrooms and the kitchens of how life was lived. The village was a fief of the Carroz, counts of Quirra, then of the Centelles when Quirra became a marquisate in 1603, and finally of the Osorio de la Cueva, from whom it bought itself out in 1839.
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📅 Every year, on 20 January
On 20 January Turri, a municipality of 442 inhabitants in Sud Sardegna, celebrates its patron Saint Sebastian, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
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Outside Turri, but an easy day trip away.
