Tresnuraghes

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Comune di Tresnuraghes
Coat of arms of Comune di Tresnuraghes
Municipal coat of arms

Location of Tresnuraghes in Italy
Country Flag of Italy Italy
Region Sardinia
Province Oristano (OR)
Elevation 257 m (843 ft)
Area 31.55 km² (12 sq mi)
Population (as of Dec. 2004[1])
 - Total 1,261
 - Density 40/km² (104/sq mi)
Time zone CET, UTC+1
Coordinates 40°15′N, 8°31′E
Gentilic Tresnuraghesi
Dialing code 0785
Postal code 09079
Frazioni Porto Alabe
Patron St. George
 - Day April 23
Website: www.comune.tresnuraghes.or.it

Tresnuraghes is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 130 km northwest of Cagliari and about 40 km north of Oristano.

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[edit] Geography

Tresnuraghes borders the following municipalities: Cuglieri, Flussio, Magomadas, Sennariolo.

[edit] Festivals

The Feast of Saint Mark is a traditional Sardinian feste, the most important one, which is a time of excess consumption that helps solidify the social community. Local shepherd families in this predominantly pastoral community offer sheep and oversee cooking them in a gesture of thanks to Providence. Other families offer bread as thanksgiving or for favors desired. Hundreds of people, mostly from Tresnuraghes, but a large number of outsiders as well, eat and drink to satiation together.[2]

[edit] Demographic evolution

See table below.

[edit] References

  1. ^ All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
  2. ^ Counihan, Carole, The Anthropology of Food and Body, p. 39 

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