Arborea tourist information
Arborea
Only 28 km far from Oristano, in the Rio Mannu valley. Arborea is surrounded by numerous farms and alleys, eucalyptuses, poplars and pine trees. All that vegetation keeping together the sandish ground; the whole zone has been considered a predesertic area since 1931, when the Council has been established.
Today Arborea is a village with more than 3000 inhabitants but in the past it has proudly influenced the architectural environment of most of the other centres all around the Oristano’s province. Between the X and XIV century Sardinia was divided in four small states inherited from the Byzatine jurisdiction. Each state was called Giudicato because managed by a Judge (giudice), a sort of governor and prince.
The Giudicato of Arborea held out for a long time, beyond 1400, until the Aragonians arrived in 1417 and the whole area submitted to Oristano’s Marquesses and Lords of Goceano. One of the most well-known Judge has definitely been Martino IV, who lets the experts write in the Sardinian language the famous “Carta de Logu”. The Carta de Logu is a collection of legal rules, and it has been completed by Martino IV’s daughter, Eleonora, Judge of Arborea. The collection has been inspired by the Italian law and spread itself all around Sardinia, remaining effective up to the XIX century.
In 1919 Arborea passed through important deals regarding the political and town-planning arrangements. The marshland in the Oristano southern area was reclaimed. In 1937 about 3000 hectares of land have been redeemed from the agricultural and zootechnical production through the dry up of the big salted pool of Sassu. Today the landscape shows itself as cultivated fields in succession, flanked by trees, modern stables and canals. In the 1928, during the Fascism, an area called Mussolinia has been built in the middle of the recovered territories.
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