Attractions and Places To See around Semèstene/Semestene - Top 20

Dating back to the 12th-13th century, a very well-preserved Romanesque church which can be freely accessed through the gate that overlooks the street. In the surrounding area you can see the remains of the monastery of which the church was part.

Standing on a rocky ridge of Meilogu, Rebeccu dominates the plain of Santa Lucia, six kilometers from Bonorva, isolated and populated only by the legends that made it famous. Rebeccu is a medieval village with a prestigious past, almost uninhabited today, once the capital of the Curatoria of Costavalle and a strategic point on the border between the Giudicati of Arborea and Torres. A few stone houses, some restored, a small church and a desecrated graveyard make it both unsettling and evocative, especially in light of the stories surrounding it. The most famous concerns King Beccu, feudal lord of the village, and his daughter, Princess Donoria: believed to be a witch who was expelled from the village while her house was being destroyed by fire. Leaving it tied to a mule, he unleashed the “curse of the thirty houses”: Rebeccu would never have had more than thirty houses. According to some versions, even the father started his anathema, poisoning the numerous water sources in the area. During the Judgment period, the center had 400 inhabitants, then it began to depopulate from the 15th century. According to legend, the survivors of the curse founded Bonorva, while some of them, the boldest, tried to rebuild the village, being careful not to exceed thirty houses. However, history says that a Catalan detachment, arriving from Alghero in 1353, exterminated the population and burned the village, only to provoke the reaction of the Arborea Judicate. A few decades later, a peace treaty was signed between Eleonora d'Arborea and the King of Aragon in the church of Rebeccu. The importance that the center had in the Middle Ages has also given rise to another legend: it is here, in a castle that has now disappeared, that the marriage between the judge and Brancaleone Doria was said to have taken place. Between the cobbled streets and the houses, you will walk in absolute silence, breathing in a constantly evocative and mysterious atmosphere. It's no coincidence that the village has become a backdrop for movies and photo sets, and has hosted a film festival for decades. Source: https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/it/esplora/rebeccu

The monument, a small cult spring from the Nuragic period, consists of an atrium and a small cell where the vein of the spring is collected. The paved rectangular atrium (5.15 x 1.80 m) has seating along the walls (height 0.30 m; width 0.40 m) and a small alcove. The masonry (height 2 m; width 3 m) consists of regular rows of carefully squared basalt blocks. From the atrium one enters the small cell through an entrance with a trapezoidal light (0.65 m wide; 0.64 m high) obtained in a monolithic slab. The small room (diameter 0.97 m; height 1.60 m), built of roughly worked but carefully joined blocks of basalt, has a "tholos" roof closed by a large horizontal slab. In Christian times, a Latin cross was engraved on the underside of the end plate. The water flows through a channel carved into the sill of the entrance to the spring to a drainage channel built under the floor of the atrium itself. The settlement of the place lasted until late antiquity, as evidenced by coins from the fourth century. AD Found in the time of Taramelli while clearing the porch. Source: http://www.sardegnacultura.it/j/v/253?v=2&c=2488&t=1&s=21393

Necropolis of Filigosa The necropolis of Filigosa is located on the northern outskirts of Macomer, in the province of Nuoro, Sardinia. It was not eponymous for any of the Abealzu-Filigosa cultures. The necropolis consists of four Domus de Janas, which were carved into the tuff slope below the Nuraghe Ruju (also Ruggiu) with about 10 m long dromoi. Here in 1965, during the excavation by E. Contu, traces of the Copper Age Filigosa culture, which dates back to 2900 to 2700 BC, were found in rock tombs that were otherwise created by the Ozieri culture (from 3500 BC). is dated. A second excavation, carried out by Alba Foschi, took place in the 1980s. The existing finds from the necropolis, consisting of simple, rarely decorated pottery and almost exclusively excarnated bones, have contributed to the understanding of the brief transitional phase in Sardinian prehistory. Three plants are parallel on the middle slope, while the fourth is slightly higher. The large chambers have front access to two (Tomb III) to eight (Tomb I) side chambers. On the floor, centrally located, there is a raised ring (0.97 m in diameter) that marks a fireplace. There are usually two entrances to the side chambers on the rear wall. Nuraghe Ruju The half-collapsed Nuraghe Ruggiu (or Ruju), as it were cut in half, shows the corbelled vault construction as in an elevation model, which gives an insight into the construction of the tholos. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necropolis_of_Filigosa

Macomer is the cheese capital of Sardinia. At the Lacesa cheese factory, you can buy a wide variety of cheeses directly from the producer. Mon - Fri 8.30 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Sat 8.30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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Town of Marmilla, rich in history and archeology. The murals on the facades of the houses are beautiful.