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Sanluri<br />
Sanluri (8,519 inhabitants) is located in the heart of the new province of the<br />
Medio Campidano. The agricultural richness of its lands, along with its<br />
advantageous geographic location, has given it a considerable historical<br />
importance. Symbol of its past is the castle: walking along the passageway<br />
amongst the four crenellated walls, it is possible to live again the famous<br />
battle of 1409, in which the Judicate of Arborea was defeated by the<br />
Aragonese with the resulting harsh retaliation by the winners on the town.<br />
Erected in the XIII century, it is the only one across Sardinia that is still<br />
liveable and furnished with ancient fittings. It houses a private museum with<br />
paintings, ceramics, wax models, rare documents and historical heirlooms of<br />
the wars of the Italian Renaissance and of the 1900s. Still of the medieval<br />
period is the church of San Pietro (XIV century). Whereas of more recent age<br />
is the parish of Nostra Signora delle Grazie, built in the 1780s on a preexisting<br />
church of which the Gothic bell tower is left, modified and adapted<br />
to the Baroque style of the compound. Inside is the Retable of Sant’Anna, a<br />
dual triptych in oil on canvas, dated to 1576. Amongst the furnishings, an<br />
evocative crucifix of the 1400s stands out.<br />
On the left:<br />
Castle of Marmilla,<br />
Las Plassas<br />
On the right:<br />
Castle of<br />
Eleonora d’Arborea<br />
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