Villacidro (SU)

Villacidro is a center with a distant agro-pastoral tradition, which due to the beauty of the landscape is also popular for holidays.

The oldest documentary information dates back to the 14th century, while a local tradition would have it that the name derives from the coagulation of a settlement around a legendary cedar tree.

The urban layout, conditioned by the location - unique in Sardinia - on the edge of an alluvial fan, has developed into two nuclei: one further downstream, built on gently sloping terrain and the more characteristic upstream nucleus is compact lots of houses mostly made of stone, which start from the parish square dedicated to St. Barbara whose original sixteenth-century Gothic-Aragonese construction, the bell tower and the "capilla mayor" with a star vault are preserved; modified during the century. XVII, contains some furnishings, sacred furnishings and sixteenth-eighteenth-century statues.