Cuglieri

Cuglieri fans out like an amphitheatre on Bardosu hill, on the western slope of the Montiferru volcanic massif, the principal town of the historical Montiferru region. The Basilica di Santa Maria ad Nives, the Madonna of the Snow, dominates the village and was the first church in Sardegna granted the title of minor basilica; the patronal festa runs from 4 to 7 August. The Zatrillas family planted olives across more than five hundred hectares around the town from the seventeenth century onward, and the silver-leafed groves still define the landscape; the local oil carries the Città dell'Olio mark.

Six kilometers down toward the coast lie the ruins of Cornus, the Punic settlement founded at the end of the sixth century BC that became the stronghold of Sardo-Punic resistance to Rome in 215 BC. The Columbaris cemetery on the same plateau holds an early Christian basilica complex, a baptistery, and a necropolis in use from the fourth century AD until a fire in the seventh or eighth century ended the site.