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In the municipality of the province of Cagliari Villaputzu has about five thousand inhabitants.
As part of the rich region of Sarrabus borders the municipalities of Muravera, San Vito, Tertenia and Perdasdefogu. The heart of the village lies in a fertile plain area, created through the alluvial deposits of the river Flumendosa, and the country has embraced behind from the rolling hills of Sarrabus.
Located about 78 km from Cagliari, the country can be easily reached by car on a trip of about an hour.
The trip could prove torturous at times, but the trip will pay off giving scenarios and landscapes really lovely.
Villaputzu reached, in the Sardinian language Biddeputzi recommend first of all a visit to the quaint old town where you can admire the small church of Santa Brigida originally built with an exquisite Gothic aragonese now difficult to recognize because of the constant rehashes many centuries.
To visit the church of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, which was built in the seventeenth century, rich inside with precious works of art and the church of St. Nicholas of Chirra.
Its construction dates from around 1100 and even today its Romanesque style is easily visible.
Now only the ruins remain of what was once the imposing Castle Chirra.
The structure was built in the thirteenth century in a strategic position was once one of the safest and most impregnable fortresses of the island.
Will close the tour the beautiful Coral Harbour Tower, built in the sixteenth century to guard the coast perennially attacked by invaders from the sea.
Among the most beautiful beaches of the Coral Harbour, embraced by lush green vegetation and a sea of pure crystal.
Villaputzu also offers its visitors a charming marina able to hold about 400 boats.
The service is available 24 hours of the port 24 has one of the most efficient in the area.
Inspired by events often particularly characteristic the port each year hosts fairs, performances by folk groups and dialect poets and musicians of launeddas.
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