{"id":13403,"date":"2025-11-04T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terracruda.netsoul.dev\/citta-della-terra\/vallermosa\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:38:23","slug":"vallermosa","status":"publish","type":"citta-della-terra","link":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/citta-della-terra\/vallermosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Vallermosa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The place name derives from the Spanish hermosa and means &#8216;beautiful and fertile valley&#8217;, in a word &#8216;laughing&#8217;. Vallermosa lies in a valley bordered by two streams at the foot of Mount Cuccurdoni Mannu, on the eastern edge of the Linas Mountain massif. Campidanese mud-brick houses with artistic doorways grace the historic districts of Prazz&#8217;e cresia, Cruxi santa, Cabina and s&#8217;Ecca manna . The parish church of San Lucifero, dating from the 17th-18th centuries, stands out in the center. Notable among the earthen buildings is the former Montis house recovered by the municipality for use as a museum house. In the countryside, you&#8217;ll admire the shrine of Santa Maria, near which stand the Roman baths (3rd-4th century AD). Folk festivals are a riot of colors and sounds of traditional clothing and musical rhythms: the patron saint is celebrated on May 20, santa Maria between Sept. 7 and 9 with a procession from the parish church to the country church and scenic torchlight procession on the return.<br\/>Bordering the municipalities of Iglesias and Villacidro is the Matzanni archaeological area, which houses a wall structure, three Nuragic well temples, surrounded by a village of 13 huts, and the ruins of a Punic temple. The most valuable artifact found is the &#8216;Barbetta&#8217; bronze statuette, exhibited in Cagliari&#8217;s national archaeological museum. On a hill near the village rises the nuraghe su Casteddu de Fanaris, from which you will admire a striking scenery.         The territory has been inhabited since Nuragic times and then in Punic-Roman times, but the origins of the settlement date back to the mid-17th century, as part of the events of Spanish feudal Sardinia: the Marquis of Villasor, Blasco de Alag\u00f2n organized a massive relocation of families to the depopulated villages of Pau Josso and Pau de Vignas.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13406,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-13403","citta-della-terra","type-citta-della-terra","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citta-della-terra\/13403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citta-della-terra"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citta-della-terra"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracruda.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}