According to the testimonies of some historical ones, around 1000 to the strata of the Montiferru, thanks to the presence of water of the sources, an adjoining village to the church was formed devoted to S. Lussorio, today calling Saint Cross, whose altar, was consecrate in 1185 from the bishop of Bosa.

During the centuries, noble characters of the church, of the politics, but also educated and well-off lussurgesi has given prestige to the country. Beginning from 1478 the country was animate from the arrival of the Frati Minori Osservanti and above all from the important figure of St. Bernardino da Feltre, for wish of which the convent and the church of Saint were built Maria of the Angels. The testimonies of some historians point out that, around 1000 to the strata of the Montiferru, thanks to the presence of water of the sources, an adjoining village to the church was formed in honor to S. Lussorio, today calling Santa Croce, whose altar, was consecrate in 1185 from the bishop of Bosa. Ma is mainly with the motions antifeudali (1796-1803) driven by Giovanni Maria Angioy of Bono, that Santu Lussurgiu was one of the countries that it made him notice in the Piedmontese Sardinian Kingdom. You document that go up again to that period, in fact, they describe Santu Lussurgiu as a flourishing country of the kingdom, both from the economic viewpoint and social. The presence of literates and men of culture also spread to Santu Lussurgiu the utopian French ideal of liberty and equality, that circulated by now in the whole island, persecuted and oppressael raced of the centuries, noble characters of the church, of the politics, but also educated and well-off lussurgesi has given prestige to the country.

Beginning from 1478 the country was animate from the arrival of the Frati Minori Observant and above all from the important figure of St. Bernardino da Feltre, for wish of which the convent and the church of Saint were built Maria of the Angels. The testimonies of some historians point out that, around 1000 to the strata of the Montiferru, thanks to the presence of water of the

sources, an adjoining village to the church was formed in honor to S. Lussorio, today calling Saint Cross, whose altar, was consecrate in 1185 from the bishop of local feudal Bosa. The small nobility and the clergy, fed by the anarchic ideal and ache bearing her unfair and unfair persecutions which you/they were submitted, they answered to the overbearances of the vassals pushing the people to the rebellion. Was so that, to the song of "Procurade 'and to moderate, Barones, knows tyranny.!" (Try to moderate, or Barons your tyranny.!), they exploded in Sardinia the motions antifeudali. Between the eight hundred and the nine hundred Santu Lussurgiu it knew one period of great development becoming a florid center of Sardinia that reached the 6000 inhabitants. Fifty-fifty of the eight hundred, thanks to the inheritance (terrestrial, livestock and houses) of Pietro Paolo Carta and Giovanni Andrea Meloni, the corporate body was constituted Ente Morale Carta-Meloni. The school that was given in management to the Scolopi, and subsequently to the Salesiani that made to become the country of Santu Lussurgiu an important cultural center for the whole Sardinia. Among the numerous pupils of the scuola,che in adult age they covered important institutional charges in the island, there was Anthony Gramsci founder of the Italian Communist Party. Today, the school is managed by the Cooperative Cultural Paper-melons that currently work with some Superior Institutes. In the two last centuries, the economy lussurgese was strongly influenced by the presence of numerous streams making possible the to rise of agricultural activity that characterized the country: here mills and gualchiere, operated by the strength engine of the water. The luxuriant pastures made possible over that the breeding of the ovine ones, also that of the cattle, representing between the eight hundred and the nine hundred the principal activity of the country. The craftsmanship has been very important in the economic life and social of S.Lussurgiu.

 

Il sito è online dal 01/12/2003