Luras

Lura ( Sardinian: Lura, gallurese: Lurisi ) is a municipality with 2606 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Olbia- Tempio, in the historical region of Gallura. Lura is over 500 meters ü.dA and is about 11 km from Tempio Pausania and 38 km from Olbia.

The name

The name comes from the Latin Lura lura what it should mean sack because the rocks around remember such. The village lies on a plateau full of boulders, in the barest area of Gallura. The Tancas ( boundary walls ) characterize the image. The neighboring municipalities are Arzachena, Calangianus, Luogosanto, Sant'Antonio di Gallura, Tempio Pausania. Unlike the other villages of Gallura, is still spoken in Lura an original Sardinian from the Mittelsardischen ( logudoresischen ) dialect family; why this is so is unclear.

Traffic

The connecting road of Calangianus about Lura for SS 133 (Santa Teresa and Palau ) crosses a piece of bald -art Gallura. No tree, no shrub, only Tancas (boundary walls ) by pulling a plateau full of rocks, barren pastures and small farms with livestock.

Lura has a station on the narrow gauge railway line Sassari - Palau, which is served in the summer months from Trenino Verde.

History

Some historians believe that the place Lura, can be found in the nearby prehistoric traces, on a foundation of the Etruscans in 862 BC to decline, although a population of Sardinia is not attested by the Etruscans. The first written evidence of Lura is the Pisan Carta dating back to 1300, in the towns of giudicato Gallura were listed. In this time and in the subsequent Aragonese period ( to 1479 ) came to Lura various settlements that were later abandoned again. Later Lura was a part of the county Gallura ( until 1839 ). In the 19th century Lureser began to act with their products. These included the Berrittas ( Men Hats), wool, leather, cork and iron goods, cloth, wine and other agricultural products. Today, agriculture is mainly ( agriculture, Fiehhaltung, cork oaks growing and viticulture, for example, the Vermentino di Gallura from the Vermentino ).

In Lura are four dolmens of Lura. The plants Alzoledda, Bill Ella, Ciuledda and Ladas are well preserved partially Dolmen and consist of the local granite.

1765, the decaying parish church was canceled for St. James and built by the present parish church for the rosary mother in the Romanesque Revival style. There are also several smaller churches in the town center and in the fields ( chiese Campestri )

Old wild olive ( Olea Europea subsp. Sylvestris) stand on the shore of Lake Liscia, the eldest of them, who is from the Luresern S'Ozzastru ( Sardinian for The Olive Tree ) called, has a circumference of about 22 meters and could be over 3,800 years old be. He is thus one of Europe's oldest trees. The other two ancient olive trees are 2500 and 500 years old.

Museums

In Lura there are two private museums. The Museo Galluras commodities are issued earlier times and the Collezione Forte Leoni shows art objects made ​​of cork, made ​​from Lureser artist Tonino Forte Leoni ( 1939-1996 ).