Remembering is important, it allows us to relive emotions, gestures, moments from the past and make them eternal.
It is thanks to memory that tradition can exist and consequently so much variety of food, customs, dances and other elements that make the world extraordinarily interesting and heterogeneous.
Sardinia has a folkloric past that is still the beating heart of this wonderful region today.
To see and hear a group of Mamuthones in motion is to feel the emotion ... it is not like reading a book, it is a much more vivid sensation that conquers all the senses and makes the experience unique.
Festivals and events in and around Bari Sardo
You can't miss the events that Bari Sardo prepares throughout the year, making your stay in this village even more evocative. After a typical hot day at the beach, it is time to take to the streets and celebrate.
Religious festivals include the feast of Sant'Antonio Abate in January, the traditional procession on the occasion of Corpus Domini held in June, the feast of St John the Baptist in July and the feast of the patron saint (the Blessed Virgin of Monserrato) held in September; all this without forgetting the rituals of Holy Week with the Good Friday procession and the rite of ‘S'Incontru’ on Easter Sunday.
There are also many festivals that are organised; one of the most famous is ‘Su Nenniri’, organised on the occasion of the festivities in honour of St John the Baptist: on this occasion, the agro-pastoral world is celebrated and the preparation of pots of wheat sprouts (su nenniri), thrown into the sea as a sign of good omen at the end of the religious procession itself, is also re-enacted.
A fusion of the sacred and profane, tradition and legend that still creates interest and curiosity today.
Bari Sardo the ancient village the perfect combination of art, culture, history, beaches and events.
- 18 and 19 June, Bari Sardo will be coloured with festivities with the Cortes Apertas Gopparis de froris de Santu Giuanni, an event celebrating an ancient rural past. The peasant and pastoral culture is relived with religious rites, poetry, singing, dancing and costumes. Even the cuisine re-proposes typical dishes of a past reality but never forgotten by the island's inhabitants. A folk festival of rare beauty that attracts visitors from all over Italy.
- Second Sunday in July ‘Il rito de su Nenniri’. The festival, of very ancient origin, originated as a pagan festival and still takes place today with the preparation of vases containing golden wheat shoots (su nenniri) accompanied by magnificent oat straw crosses adorned with flakes, pintau bread and seasonal fruit. Su Nenniri is carried in procession from the church of San Giovanni and thrown into the sea at the foot of the Spanish tower with propitiatory significance.
- On 8 September, the Feast of the Blessed Virgin of Monserrato, the Nativity of the Madonna is celebrated. The statue is carried in procession, covered in jewellery and votive offerings donated by the people of Monserrato, through the streets of Monserrato, which are covered in flower petals for the occasion. Also in September, Saints Michael and Jerome are celebrated. In addition to the evocative religious processions during the festivities, evenings of music and dancing are organised, offering the opportunity to rediscover the island's ethnic music.
- In Barisardo, the Sagra dei Culurgiones (Culurgiones Festival) is held, during which visitors can taste a dish with a long Ogliastra agro-pastoral tradition, the origins of which are lost in time. Potatoes, pecorino cheese, mint and garlic and a skilful closing of the pasta with a very particular spike shape. This festival, now famous in several parts of Italy, is animated in the streets with music and dancing.