Sorso (SS)

Sorso (Sòssu in Turritano), in the province of Sassari is the fifth largest municipality in terms of population in the province and covers 67.1 square kilometers.

It is located in the ancient region of Romangia of which it is the historical capital and overlooks the Gulf of Asinara.

It is a large agricultural village located within a circle of olive groves and vineyards; the area gives fine wines bottled in a modern social cellar, and fruit and vegetables, especially artichokes.

Sorso enjoys a geographical position of great landscape value; Its coast, with the famous beaches of Marina di Sorso (which is also a fraction of the town) and Platamona, extends for about 18 km.

Fruit and vegetables are grown in the surrounding fertile lands, but mainly olives and vines.

The territory of Sorso, rich in prehistoric and Roman antiquities "domus de janas" in the Abbiu area; remains of nuraghi and a megalithic enclosure on Mount Cau, north east of the town; Roman traces in the localities Lu Pidocciu, Petrugnanu, Tres Montes, S. Filidiga, was partly included in the "perch" of the Roman colony of Turris Libisonis.

Romangia became part of the new Sassari municipality in the Middle Ages, resulting in very strong influences for Sorso, still to be found today in the dialect and in the urban structure, which in some respects echoes that of Sassari. After the Aragonese conquest, Sorso and Romangia were given as a fief (1440) to Gonario Gambella, and remained until the seventeenth century. to the descendants of the family