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Feasts and popular traditionsFeasts and popular traditions
Sant¶Antonio
Istituto TecnicoIstituto Tecnico
Commerciale e Geometri Commerciale e Geometri
L. OggianoL. Oggiano
Discovering SiniscolaDiscovering Siniscola
Come and see my Come and see my
towntownAt the foot of the Mount Albo, a steep calcareous ridge,
along the homonym river, Siniscola faces towards the
beaches and the cliffs of the east Sardinian coast. The territory
offers a series of agrarian and natural landscapes of surprising
variety from the limestone dolomites mountains of Mount
Albo to the cultivation (groves, vineyards, pastures) of the
plain furrowed by water courses that flow into the ample
coastal lagoons that extend from the hamlet of La Caletta to
the stupendous beach of Berchida. The zone is very rich in
woods and springs and has a territory of great naturalistic
interest because of the presence of plants and rare animals
among which the Bonelli royal eagle, the mouflon, the boar
and the owl. The prevalent activities consist in sheep and
cattle rearing, workmanship of the dairy products, extractive
and artisan activities, harbour and fishing. In the territory
numerous testimonies of the ancient presence of man are
present.
In the countryside of Siniscola there are about 26 Nuraghi ,some giants graves and only one Domus de Janas of which
only ruins remain.
Sant' Antonio¶s festival takes
place on the 16th and 17th of
January. A few days before
the religious festival, the
women in a lot of houses
prepare the typical sweets of this holiday Su Pistiddu. For
this occasion the people gather
up the rosemary and take it to
Sant' Antonio¶s churchyard;
before unloading it the tractors
drive around the village. The
people pile up the rosemary
around the pole to make a high
bonfire. According to the
tradition the people walk
around the fire three times to
1)Elene Portiche 2) Gana µe Gortoe
3) Sa Nurra de
Fruncu 'e Oche Cave
4) Sa Conca
Manna de Locoli
Cavereceive good luck. A pig is put at the top of the pale,
when the fire has been lighted young boys climb up the
bonfire to get it. Sant'Antonio¶s festival is a tradition which
unites all the village.
San GiacomoSan Giacomo's festival is celebrated on the 1st of May. Many
people go to the church square, where a committee organises
a dinner for the public. In the afternoon some folk groups
perform the typical folk dances of Siniscola.
Sant¶Efisio
Sant' Efisio's festival is in September. He's similar to San
Giacomo's festival, they organise a lunch and there are typicalfolk groups of Siniscola who perform in very famous
Sardinian dances.
Festa delle Grazie
Festa delle Grazie's festival is celebrated beginning from the
second Friday of October till Monday. A lot of stalles offer
and sell typical Sardinian foods like torrone.
Su Petticoccone
On the second of November, All Soul's day the children take
a pillow, go around the village knocking at the doors and
asking for sweets and bonbons. During that occasionSiniscola's people prepare typical Sardinian's sweets like
pa passini and casatinas.
The students of I.T.C.G. welcome you to
Siniscola with the intention to meet your
requirement, to lead you towards the
wonders of our Island and to discover the
ancient tastes of an old land
Project ManagerMaria Francesca Carta
English Teachers:
Giuseppa Maria Gerardi
Giuseppina Virdis
Fredericks Carol
May 2002
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The CavesThe Cavesat the exit of Siniscola towards Olbia, opens in the
courtyard of a home. It¶s been explored by
Nuoro¶s Speleo Club. It has an horizontal cave and
develops along 966 m. but it hasn¶t been entirely
explored yet.
Elene Portiche is a big cave in the west of Monte
Lattu. The shape is not the original one because it
has been devasted by illegal excavation. Inside itthere is a room with sub-circular floor plan where
there is a stalagmite column and small niches on
the left side of the entrance.
Sa Nurra de Fruncu 'e Oche Cave develops in a
sub-horizontal way and presents a big entry which
opens into a large room full of clay stone and
numerous niches. The second entry is higher up to
the right and opens into another large room which
hasn't been completely explored.
Sa Conca Manna de Locoli Cave presents an
entrance which conducts to a lake. Past the lake
there is a passage rich in forms of erosion but with
no stalagmites and stalactites. The third lake is at
140 m. from entrance and can be crossed only by a
rubber-dinghy.
At the end of the last lake there are two branches:
the left one is made of architectural features
created by erosion and tortuous paths; the right oneleads to a syphon which French speleosubs have
explored for about 1000 mt.of underground caves.
A vast part of Siniscola's territory is characterized
by a surronding rich in carsism phenomenon which
originated from the melting of the calcareous rock
caused by atmospheric agents.
Limestone isn't a soluble rock but the water,
passing through the ground, becomes rich in
minerals which transform it in soluble rock
changing its morphology.The water filtering through the cracks, widens
them and slowly dissolves the rock originating in a
new cave. A lot of caves exist but the most
spectacular ones are those created by the passing
of the centuries thanks to the slow dissolution of
the limestone.
Both vertical caves of wells and chasms as well as
horizontal caves of galleries and labyrinths can be
formed. In the later there are more natural
decorations caused by erosion.The drops of water which fall on the ground form
the famous stalagmites that can join with the
stalactites originating pillars.
Nowadays fossil caves exist and active caves in
which the erosive action continues up today and
tourists can admire this wonderful panorama.
Monte Albo is characterized by carst caves of
modest dimensions which have fossil origins.
Only in some of them we can find abundant
dripping caused by winter atmospheric agents. In
Sa conca manna de Locoli there are small lakes
and a brook flows through Gana µe Gortoe.
Some caves are important for the fauna and for the
presence of troglodyte animals, which had adapted
to underground life. Some of them are of archaeological interest and they were inhabited by
man in prehistory. The cave of Gana µe Gortoe,