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The Sartiglia<br />
(horse race) di<br />
Oristano<br />
or to the Byzantine past (i.e. the ardia of San Costantino); the music.<br />
… Sardinia was a dazzling vision; in this land unknown to the Italian<br />
people themselves, where the costumes of ancient times have preserved<br />
their original beauty, I came to know, closely, the velvet farsetto, and the<br />
Middle Ages went by every day past myself, as though the world had not<br />
been revolving for four or five centuries…<br />
(Gaston Vuillier, The Forgotten Isles. Sardinia, 1893)<br />
The Museum of Sardinian Life and Popular Traditions, the most important<br />
ethnographic museum in Sardinia, is managed by ISRE (Istituto Superiore<br />
Regionale Etnografico – Regional Superior Ethnographic Institute), a direct<br />
emanation of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia.<br />
The museum was opened to the public in August 1976, with the aim to<br />
provide the visitor with a global view of the traditional life of Sardinia<br />
through the farming and peasant work, the fairs and music, the food, and<br />
the popular costumes.<br />
The compound housing the museum is located in Nuoro, on the hill of<br />
Sant’Onofrio, and aims to reproduce a traditional Sardinian village. Many<br />
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