Uta (CA)
Latitude: 39.2922
Longitude: 8.9552
Population: 8726
Area: 134,71
Density: 64,78
It is a village of about 8000 inhabitants in the Campidano area.
The town is arranged along a longitudinal axis that extends into the central square of the parish church of S. Giusta, a late sixteenth-century construction in the Catalan-Gothic style.
The buildings of the central nucleus, created according to the traditional methods of the Campidanese area, are aggregated in an unusual way for the area, creating unitary cells welded together by a single double sloping roof.
The town's name derives from the Latin Uda which means "wet", "marshy".
During the Middle Ages it belonged to the Giudicato of Cagliari and was part of the curatoria of Decimo.
Along the main street, just outside the town, in a solitary and evocative environment, stands one of the most beautiful and important Romanesque architecture in Sardinia, the church of S. Maria, probably the last erected by the Vittorini on the island.
