Travel guide

Sanluri
Sanluri (8,519 inhabitants) is located in the heart of the new province of the
Medio Campidano. The agricultural richness of its lands, along with its
advantageous geographic location, has given it a considerable historical
importance. Symbol of its past is the castle: walking along the passageway
amongst the four crenellated walls, it is possible to live again the famous
battle of 1409, in which the Judicate of Arborea was defeated by the
Aragonese with the resulting harsh retaliation by the winners on the town.
Erected in the XIII century, it is the only one across Sardinia that is still
liveable and furnished with ancient fittings. It houses a private museum with
paintings, ceramics, wax models, rare documents and historical heirlooms of
the wars of the Italian Renaissance and of the 1900s. Still of the medieval
period is the church of San Pietro (XIV century). Whereas of more recent age
is the parish of Nostra Signora delle Grazie, built in the 1780s on a preexisting
church of which the Gothic bell tower is left, modified and adapted
to the Baroque style of the compound. Inside is the Retable of Sant’Anna, a
dual triptych in oil on canvas, dated to 1576. Amongst the furnishings, an
evocative crucifix of the 1400s stands out.
On the left:
Castle of Marmilla,
Las Plassas
On the right:
Castle of
Eleonora d’Arborea
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