Typical of the area:
Cold-pressed olive oil and the rare red oxen who are bred freely in the mountains of Montiferru. Furthermore the cherry harvest is celebrated here at the beginning of June each year.

A small village close to Santulussurgiu with a mineral spring water supply, which flows constantly at 11 degrees Celsius from seven sources (Siete Fuentes).
In this village you also find the Roman Pisane church of the same name, San Leonardo.

7 Kms southwest of Macomer, in direction of Santulussurgiu is the worth visiting excavation site of Tamùli. With 6 conical Menhirs made of basalt, the so-called Betili (perdas marmuradas).
Three are hill shaped, and represent the feminine element clearly, the other three are instead male, and represent the phallic symbol. There are also a Nuraghe with still intact stone huts and the remains of 3 graves of the Giants

Antique Nuraghe Complex and sacred well from the 9th Century b.C, about 3 km southwest of Abbasanta, close to Paulilatino. You can reach this highly visited site easily from a posted exit on the “Carlo Felice” motorway SS131.

This is the most important Nuraghe of southwest Sardinia. In the nearbies of Abbasanta, a Monument out of the prehistoric culture of Sardinia. The tower originates from the year 1000 before Christ, the bastion from between the 8th and 7th Century before Christ. And the rings from the 7th Century before Christ.

Pictorial place on the bank of the river Tirso (in close proximity to Oristano), formerly the Roman settlement “forum Traiani” and the bishop seat between the V and X century. The place is also visited for the ruins of the Roman Thermal baths where the springs warm up to 54 degrees C.

The witch museum opened in the old city hall of Bidonì in 2004. "S'omo 'e SA Marza" (literally the witch house) lies in the province of Oristano with a view to the Omodeo lake (largest artificial lake in Italy). The exhibition documents the history of the witches in Sardinia from the old to the modern times, and describe typical rituals and reasons of the local witchcraft.

Antique harbour, built in 730 b.C. as a stop for merchant ships from the Mediterranean area. From 238 b.C. Tharros became a rich Roman city. Baths, houses and cult places are found in the south side, while in the north part you can find a Tophet (sacrifice place) and the Nuraghe village of Murru Mannu.

The so-called “Stagno di Cabras” is the largest lagoon of the peninsula. With its waters rich of fish is also one of the largest wetland areas of the island.

In summer guided tours are offered regularly. However guests can observe living cormorants, flamingos and wild geese all year round.

A protected quarz sandy beach.

Long sandy beach with a nearby pine forest.

Impressive, natural stoned path going up to the sea, named 'Sentiero dei Giganti' (path of the giants).

Take the highway from Bonarcado, accross Santulussurgiu and Tresnuraghes up to Bosa.

Historical city at the river bank of the Temo.
It's worth doing the 500 meters long bank promenade “de Gasperi” starting from the bridge “Ponte Vecchio”, with the abandoned tanneries “Sas Conzas” at the left river bank
You can visit the late baroque, piemontese cathedral in the old part of town with a Catalan Mary Statue from the 16th Century, the small Pinacoteca Civica (Casa Deriu, in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II number 59) and finally the castle “Castello Malaspina” from the 12th Century with its church Nostra Signora di Regnos Altos from the 14th Century and a series of Catalan frescos.

Sardinian Catalan coastal town approximately 90 km away with an historical old town centre, a yacht harbour and a beach promenade.

Excursions with the historic steam engine " Trenino Verde "(green little train):
Bosa -> Modolo -> Tresnuraghes -> Tinnura -> Sindia -> Macomer.

Golf

The Sartiglia takes place on the Sunday of Carnival and Tuesday after.
It's a spectacular rider tournament, that goes back to the 16th Century. The different guilds represents the groups of riders and must spear a silver star hanging over the distance while gallopping. The number of these stars is classified as sign of coming harvests. After the tournament, riding acrobats show their amazing skills with horses.
This event is particularly important and very much appreciated by the local population and it's becoming well-known to the tourist that come numerously every year.

On the first Sunday of September of each year a very worth seeing procession takes place in Cabras:
Hundreds of young men, only dressed with a white frock, take the statue of the saint in Cabras and carry it barefoot 6 kms to the remot church of San Salvatore. The following day they carry the statue back to the parish church of Cabras running.
The devotion and solemnity that come with the event last nine days and it's not to be missed

On the 6th and 7th July the perhaps most famous rural celebration of Sardinia takes place in Sedilo. And it culminates in the so-called S'Ardia, a bareback horse-race which symbolizes the victory of Constantine over Maxentius.