It lies on the western slope of a hill between Medio Campidano and Marmilla. Furtei is a small town about 40 kilometers from Cagliari, which bases its economy on agricultural activities. It was an important medieval center. In its territory there is a high concentration of Nuragic evidence with the ruins of as many as five nuraghi. A short distance from the town is the village of Nuraxi, attested since the 17th century, now almost uninhabited, where once stood the ancient parish church, the country church of San Biagio, dating from the 13th century. Several examples of traditional stone and earthen architecture can be found in the town’s historic center. On Palm Sunday it is traditional for the mayor to hand over the Passion Palm to the parish priest, who carries it in procession. The ritual is symbolic remembrance of the peace between Furtei and Nuraxi (1605) through the intercession of Baron Santjust, who handed the families of the two villages a palm branch. Today the parish church is the church of St. Barbara. Its interior houses a painting depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus, an act that ‘relives’ the Friday before Easter during Holy Week. Parish, former parish and small churches of St. Mary of the Nativity, St. Narcissus (13th century), St. Sebastian and the Holy Family come alive during sacred rites, from the Friday of Passion, preceding Palm Sunday, with sa pintadura de sa prama, until the rite of su Incontru at Easter, passing through the processions of Our Lady of Sorrows and the Palms, for the preparation of Christ and for su Scravamentu (the deposition of the dead Christ). In addition to the rituals, there are many religious festivals, including the bonfires of St. Sebastian (Jan. 19), the celebrations of St. Isidore, protector of farmers (in mid-May), St. Blaise in late August, with the evocative procession of the saint’s return, and St. Narcissus (late October), with intoning of the rosary in alternating choirs and the invocation de is coggius, all in Campidanese Sardinian. The main feast is in the second week of September for the nativity of the Virgin.