San Salvatore

San Salvatore is located in the Sinis Peninsula in the municipality of Cabras, surrounded by ponds and hills, bearing traces of human presence since the Neolithic. The village is one of the most important in Sardinia as temporary religious center, comes alive in the nine days before the first Sunday of September (hence the name of Novena), whose day will conclude the festivities in honor of the Holy which is taken back to Cabras by a running barefoot by large group of men. Surveys and archaeological findings show that San Salvatore insists on a place of worship for thousands of years. At the center of the quadrangle in which are arranged small houses is the Church, probably built around 1780 on a building ipogeico of the late Roman era which is accessed via a staircase. Going underground, wall decorations in charcoal are visible related to different periods and two wells of the nuragic period with bethel. Archaeological surveys report about the finding of a horreum (barn) of 200 BC, and an early medieval settlement abandoned perhaps because of the raids that came from the sea. Outside the fence square of the village is Domu 'and Cubas, ruins of a thermal complex of imperial age with traces of polychrome geometric mosaic floor. The current shape of the village dates back to the period of Spanish rule presumably on the Island, when in the second half of 1600 the church hierarchy instituted the rite of the novena. The appearance of the remote and sober houses underwent a transformation in the late '60s, when the village was used to set the setting for the movie "spaghetti western", with heavy traces, today dissolved, hairpieces of facades, arches and saloon on Mexican village style. Today San Salvatore continues to perform the task of prevailing religious center to which is added a feature tourist-recreation. (original text in Gooristano)