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Holiday Farm Sardinia Bed&Breakfast
Agriturismo Stazzi La China B&B Sardinia
The "'Agriturismo e Bed & Breakfast Stazzi La China" is placed in the Luogosanto town, "Locusāntu" in the local dialect. Luogosanto is one of the more peculiar towns in Gallura, whose fascination has remained integral over the centuries. Around the area the archaeological sites are very frequent, giving the evidence of a millenarian past. The most well-known archaeological sites are the Giganti tombs of Li Lolghi and Capichera, sepulchres build to have up to two hundred burials, and the Li Muri necropolis, dated from 3000 b.C. .
In the eleventh century, Sardinia started to have a complex political organization, divided in four political sections called "Giudicati", completely independent: Torres, Gallura, Arborea e Karalis. The "Giudicati" were created to face the continuous Arabic invasions, and it is exactly during the eleventh century that we have the first information about Luogosanto.
The town of Luogosanto has an old religious tradition, and Luogosanto is still a site of pilgrimages from all the Gallura area. Saint Trano, the church of Saint Reparata, the church of Saint Leonard and the small chapel of Saint Biagio, restored in the 2001 and situated in the "'Agriturismo e Bed & Breakfast Stazzi La China" territory, make you think past ages, when the pilgrims used to rest in the small hermitages around the country, and anciently in Tuscany too. Maybe that is also the reason why the Gallura region was called the Tuscany of the Sardinia, beyond the political influence of the sea-faring republic of Pisa.
In
the historical centre of the town it is impossible not to notice the granite
used both for the church of "Nativitā di Maria" and for the other buildings
and the streets. In the Franciscan convent of the sixteenth century, just by the
Basilica, you can visit the art gallery, the diocese museum and the Centre of
medieval documentation.
In the Ethnographic Museum, managed from the Agnata group, it is possible to see again the old Gallura way of living, thanks to the group experts, very well skilled about the local traditions. The term "stazzo" derives from the Latin "statio", station, to indicate the place where the familiar nucleus used to carry out all the activities.
The numerous popular festivals and religious festivities that are carried out from spring to summer are precious occasions of encounter for living the poetry of a country proud of its own traditions.
