The property, known as the former Monte Granatico, is municipal property but was once included among the parish’s assets. This facility carried out its activities until a few years after World War 2. Having fallen into disuse and left to its own devices, in the 1980s, along with the Oratory of the Most Holy Rosary, it was given by the Curia to the municipality, which provided for its complete restoration.
The Monte Granatico of Simala, like all those that arose in Sardinia, originated during the period when the bishops of the Diocese of Usellus-Ales-Terralba, in order to meet the needs of the needy peasants living in the area, guaranteed a loan in grain and barley that had to be repaid, with very low interest, during the period of grain storage. In each village, management was entrusted to the parish priest assisted by a censor and the so-called depositary.
The Granary Mountains performed meritorious work from the late 1600s until the 1800s when their slow decline began.
