Perfugas

Perfugas ( sard. Peifugas ) is a village in the province of Sassari in Sardinia.

The village with 2419 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) is nationally known for its fountains and shrines predio Canopoli Fonte Niedda and the Museo Archeologico e Paleobotanico.

Worth seeing is the parish church of Santa Maria degli Angeli with the Retablo di San Giorgio, one of numerous existing images altarpiece from the 14th century, has been issued since 1995 after a long restoration. Opposite the church is the also restored nuragical sacred well predio Canopoli. Good condition is particularly the stairs leading down from the entrance hall with a sacrificial altar and the benches to the source.

The highlight of the exhibition of the local museum are the 1979 discovered in alluvial deposits in the Riu Altana stone tools, an age between 180,000 - 120,000 years have. Initially, it was believed that Sardinia was inhabited until about 8,000 years ago. Relics of Ozieri culture, nuragical, Phoenician, Punic and medieval finds are also on display. Moreover, you find fossils from the " Petrified Forest " ( foresta petrificada ) at Martis and other sites in the Anglona whose origin dates back 30-15 million years.

Two kilometers north is the small Catalan country church of San Giorgio and the Nuraghe Sas Ladai. Perfugas has a station on the narrow gauge railway line Sassari - Palau, which is served in the summer months from Trenino Verde.