Iglesias (Igrèsias or Bidd'e Cresia in Sardinia) is an Italian city in the province of southern Sardinia
It is found in the south-west of Sardinia, in the area of the Iglesiente, where it is the main inhabited center and to whose region it gives the name
During the centuries of Spanish rule, it was one of the real cities of Sardinia
It is a bishop's seeIn the Middle Ages the city was known in Latin as Villa Ecclesiae, in ancient Pisa as Villa di Chiesa, in Catalan Viladesgleyes or Vila d'Esgleyes and then in Spanish as Iglesias
