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Events and exibitions
Visitors may
travel to this region of southern Sardinia during the entire
year. Numerous events take place from early March until the end
of September.
Among the
most important, around the middle of April, is the
not-to-be-missed
Sagra
degli agrumi
(trans. the
“Citrus Festival”) with its processions of the traccas,
richly-decorated floats demonstrating local costumes and
traditions, and folklore groups who come from all over the
island. The first of May, in Cagliari, is St Ephesus’s Day.
Muravera’s carnival begins in early July and includes an amazing
exhibition of masks, examples of typical Sardinian craftwork
which evoke times long forgotten.
And in July and
August, there are numerous local art, craft and gastronomic
exhibitions which showcase the best that the Sarrabus region has
to offer. Among these are the sagra del pesce
(“Fish Festival”); the sagra della Pratzida (a
pratzida is a type of bread-like quiche with various fillings
native to Sardinia); and the Sa pezz’e craba, or
“Festival of the meat of the goat”. And right at the end of
August, the citizens of Muravera celebrate St Augustine’s
Day.
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