Masainas

Masainas is a coastal village near the Province of Carbonia -Iglesias in Sardinia. It lies between the lagoons of the Gulf of Palmas and the mountains of the Sulcis. Of the maquis -covered hills, the terrain, 22 km ² large village lowers down, which is located 57 m above the sea, in a plane. Deep is the village belonging to the beach Is Solinas.

There are no records about the origin of the village, but which is antique. The presence of humans show some Bronze Age Nuraghe and Punic and Roman relics. A culturally and historically interesting building is the northwestern village location, complex Nuraghe Is Fais. It consists of four cross-shaped towers. Close to the village they found the remains of a pottery workshop and two sarcophagi from the Roman period. As a confirmation of an old exerted in the area agriculture and pastoralism were found everywhere in the country " Furriadroxiu ", small rustic stables for sheep or goats.

As the villages Giba in the north and in the west Villarios was also Masainas included in the actions of the Benedictine monks who came to the island in the early 12th century. There were monasteries, the so-called " gunventus " (by convention ) built, which dominate the area today. The village center of Masainas developed around 1700 AD to the small church of San Giovanni Battista. Following the Gothic- Aragonese influences it dates from the late 15th or early 16th century. However, some researchers believe to recognize a first phase of the 11 century and late Romanesque influences. In 1836, the town with 1806 inhabitants, is the largest village in the area.

Not far from Masainas are the lagoons on the Golfo di Palmas, an ideal habitat for wading birds, such as the pink flamingos, stilts, avocets, herons and the rare marsh harriers.

39.05251838.6289947Koordinaten: 39 ° 3 ' N, 8 ° 38 ' E

• Place in Sardinia