To learn about the village in its Museo Diffuso with Sardinian-language guide, visit churches, portals, wells, river, bombing traces and air raid shelters.
Widespread Museum
Wells. Water, in various historical eras, has had different meanings. The village is also a clear example of “collective water use” because of the abundance in its territory. Plenty of wells in private properties, and even in the streets of the village it is possible to encounter public wells, arranged on street corners, in the “bijanus .” Their importance also results in toponymy, where streets and local residents are identified by the well. So many in the past, now in disuse, there are more than fifty. Drawing water from the well, in addition to the water supply, was a time for socializing and meeting. Today the wells are an important sign of historical memory and a reason for architectural and tourist interest. It is a special feature of our country along with a few others, as well as a piece of the Museum Spread.
Portals. Gonnos, like the towns of the Campidano region, also features portals to the “courtyard” houses. Initially round-arched, in ladiri, trachyte, basalt, tufa, granite, and fired brick, the portals are a characteristic element of the urban context. Some still retain the overlying roof, with horizontal wooden beams, on which is placed a reed warp above which rests tiles bound by lime mortar.
