Gastronomical

Among the best known Sardinian paste are malloreddus. They are made from semolina and warm lightly salted water, which in the best Sardinian gastronomy tradition are flavoured with saffron. They look like an empty shell and are characterised by small rises obtained by rolling small pieces of pasta in the bottom of a basket. There is also fregula which are small hand made balls of pasta which are toasted in an oven. They are very good in soup or seasoned with fresh sausage and tomato. Pillus is a semi-fresh pasta similar to "tagliolini" which is cooked in beef or sheep stock served on a bed of fresh sheep's cheese. Panadas are salted cakes which, depending on the area, are stuffed with meat or stewed eels, or with game (partridge, wild boar or hare).

Nature

Sardinian hard (wild) landscape is characterized by mountain chains, massifs, tablelands (plateau), Campidano plain and by rivers. Some artificial lakes and numerous ponds, soften Sardinian view. Sardinian coasts are full of beaches, mortises and cliffs which are lapped by the blue water of Sardinian sea. Many caves show their treasures of stalactites and stalagmites to the visitors. Mediterranean scrub, oleasters and ficodindia prevail in Sardinian landscape.

Festival

Name : Santa Maria de is Aquas
Month: September
Date: The last Monday but one
Province: Cagliari
Locality: Sardara
Duration: 4 days

- Religious procession
- Procession in traditional costumes
- Folk spectacles: dances in costume, tenor songs, songs accompanied by guitar, etc.
- Dance in the square accompanied by a band, an accordionist or a launeddas player
- Fireworks
- Poetry competition in the Sardinian language using the typical verses of the Island tradition. Two or more singers improvise verses about topics which they are told only at the beginning of the competition
- Sardinian traditional music (with accordions, barrel-organs, launeddas, etc)
- Parade of "traccas" (decorated carts which are hauled by oxen or by tractors which accompany the most solemn processions)
- Gosos or goccius (sacred ancient songs from Spain dating from seventeenth century in honour of the saint they are dedicate to and other sacred songs in the Sardinian language)
- Rural festival (sometimes it starts in the countryside and ends in the village)

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