The big country appears to the sudden one, abandoned in a deep basin to the shelter of the winds to 500 ms. of altitude. It makes party of the Montiferru and it develops him inside a crater of volcanic origin, whose houses introduce the typical lay-out to tower and the roads, steep and tortuous, they are crossed in the historical center still storing the floor

in stone. The old houses, partly you restructure, partly abandoned, they have taste of ancient. A characteristic country that offers a splendid view, so much green, fresh fountains and beneficent air to the guest. The valley that surrounds the country is surrounded from chestnut trees, lecci and ulivi and from Mediterranean stain. The tall areas, are deprived instead of vegetation, and it are to cross afoot effortless the numerous paths that cross her/it. To around 6 kms from the inhabited area of S.Lussurgiu the village of St. Leonardo rises of "Siete Fuentes" so calling for its Seven Fountains. And' a place of vacation for the one who loves above everything, the peace, and he/she wants to reassure body and spirit inhaling air of the mountains.

In origin the country was crossed by a stream fed by the sources of You "S'ena 'e s'alinu and su Sauccu", he/she was seen him/it flow in superfice up to the thirties, when the convent of the monks was dejected to make place to the building of the elementary schools. In the shores of the stream the most ancient houses were built, the one set to the others. Always in proximity of the river the mills were realized to water and the tanneries. The houses are tall and holds, the entry in beaten earth or in stone, was used as I deposit, wine cellar or also stall. To the superior plan it was entered with a staircase of firm wood, to the first floor the bedrooms were systematized with floor in wood of chestnut tree and to the last floor the kitchen. The oven was slightly built in an angle and in side position the fireplace.Between the roof and the kitchen it opened an attic which was accessed with a wood staircase, a wall of woven reeds closed the loft in which him coservavano alimentary commodities. In the kitchen they had been being untied for centuries the rhythms of the lifetime, scanned by the industriousness of the women that you/they began the heavy jobs of the daily paper to the dawn.

 

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