Gonnosfanadiga, a town of more than 6,000 inhabitants in the Middle Campidano region, stretches between plains, hills and the massif of Mount Linas, with peak
Perda de sa Mesa
and the hamlet of
Pardu Atzei
In Mount Arcuentu. It is crossed by the Rio Piras which has always played an important role in the country. It has volcanic intrusive-alluvial terrain, with marshy areas, hills and mountains mostly granitic and schist. There are numerous archaeological features: nuraghi, sacred wells, tombs, although some of them are no longer evident or detectable. The area appears to have been inhabited since the ancient Neolithic, with clear continuity into the Nuragic. The Romans speak of
Oppidum
e numerous evidences of settlements. With the arrival of the Byzantines came the Christianization of its inhabitants, and the various places of worship, also documented by their ruins, refer to that time. In the Judicial period it was in the Curatoria of Bonozuli of the Giudicato of Arborea, several records related to the existence of some villages, as from the Register of Tithes to the Church. Although several villages were inhabited by freemen, some, such as Serru, were still inhabited by families in the service of the King/Judge and as such were not surveyed. The village of Serru had a troubled existence: in the late 1100s it became a village under the authority of Genoa and the church of S Lorenzo was raised there. In 1335 King/Judge Ugone II tested the completion of St. Peter’s Church, but during Spanish rule, between 1610 and 1612, the village was destroyed in a barbarian raid. From Aragonese, Spanish, and Savoy domination, the events are the same as in the surrounding towns, here we include the settlement of the victorious dispute with San Gavino over
Spadula
(1689) and the recognition of the hamlet of “
Pardu Atzei dei Gonesus”
(1730). Singular is the story of theEdict of the Locks, which in several centers led to real popular uprisings, following the Gonnese protests between April 3/8, 1848. Referring to the name, the Fara in his
Chronografia Sardiniae
speaks of “
Oppida Gonis et Fanadiguae.”
as does the Angius writing for the C
asalis,
in 1839 speaks of
“two hamlets separated by a river and distinguished in two names Gonos the part that stands on the upper right and Fanadiga the lower part.”
Today, the village is known for its food and wine, olives and oil, bread and cured meats, meats and cheeses, but also for the tragic events of February 17, 1943, that affected the village and its inhabitants.
