Sinnai (CA)

Sinnai (Sìnnia in Sardinian) is an Italian city located in the metropolitan city of Cagliari, in Sardinia.

Sinnai rises at the foot of Mount Serpeddì, about 133 meters above sea level, in the Campidano plain of Cagliari.

The name is associated with the early Sardinian sinníga, which is a type of plant.

The territory of Sinnai has been inhabited by man since the Neolithic.

In the Nuragic era, in the Bronze Age, many nuraghi (about 56 years old) and several villages were built.

It is currently a large village lying on a series of hills that the recent accentuated building expansion is gradually occupying.

The fifteenth-century church of S. Vittoria, once in the open countryside, is now surrounded by the condominiums of the new western suburbs of Sìnnai.

The simple structure, with a rectangular plan and a single nave, repeats the characteristic typology of Sardinian rural churches; a small retable with six compartments was found there, attributable to one of the Cavaros, perhaps to Lorenzo.

Going up through narrow and twisted alleys in the upper part of the old town, you reach the parish church of S. Barbara, which dominates the town with its towering bell tower.

Of sixteenth-century layout, it shows traces of Gothic-Aragonese structures in some details of the interior, where some paintings attributed to Giambattista Scaletta from Cagliari are also exhibited

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