La festa della Sardegna (eng)

By logus mondi interattivi

An appointment that the people of Cagliari, the Sardinians and the ever increasing number of foreign visitors consecrated as the "Festival of Cagliari". A religious and folkloric festivity without parallel in the whole Cristian world, a procession stranger to be passing of time that would never become out-dated, a rice that opens wide the gates of a Sardinia, to the people that keep choosing it not only for its natural beauties, but for its historical and religious beuaties as well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Logus
• Release date: Apr 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9788898062256

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Logus - P. Matta

S. Efisio Martire

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INDEX

FOR THREE CENTURIES AND A HALF

A MARTYR FOR THE SALVATION OF CAGLIARI

AN EXPLOSION OF SHAPES AND COLOURS

THE CITY TOUR

THE PILGRIMAGE FROM CAGLIARI TO NORA

CAGLIARI - NORAfrom the 1st to the 3rd of May

NORA - CAGLIARIfrom the 3rd to the 4th of May

THE ITINERARY OF THE PROCESSION/IN CAGLIARI

THE ITINERARY OF THE PROCESSION/TO NORA AND BACK

FROM THE LAZARETS THE DESPERATE CRY FOR EFISIO

CREDITS

EDITOR'S NOTE

FOR THREE CENTURIES AND A HALF

UNCHANGED... STILL EVERY TIME SO DIFFERENT

Saint Efisio is passing through.

For three centuries and a half, the same every year, still every time so different. An appointment that the people of Cagliari, the Sardinians and the ever increasing number of foreign visitors consecrated as the Festival of Cagliari. " - movie on sardegna digital library. A religious and folkloric festivity without parallel in the whole Christian world, a procession stranger to the passing of time that would never become out¬dated, a rite that, after the grey and unpredictable winter season, opens wide the gates of a Sardinia that's finally sunny, to the people that keep choosing it not only for its natural beauties, but for its historical and religious beauties as well. Because despite the cultural revolutions, the evolution of customs and fashions, the relentless progress of the technology and of the science, Efisio keeps on being in the hearts of the Sardinians.

Simply because Efisio embodies Sardinia itself. When clusters of people were dying, wiped out by the plague of 1652, with the dead bodies piled up into the common graves without a name or dignity; or when the chief town was about to surrender to the fire volley of the French fleet;or furthermore, when a little more than sixty years ago, in the streets of a city reduced to piles of rubble, one could hear the deafening echo of the hopeless silence of death, Cagliari turned again to its protettori' poderosu.

Especially