Olzai
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Country | Italy | |
region | Sardinia | |
province | Nuoro (NU) | |
Local name | Ortzai | |
Coordinates | 40 ° 11 ′ N , 9 ° 9 ′ E | |
surface | 69.85 km² | |
Residents | 820 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 12 inhabitants / km² | |
Post Code | 08020 | |
prefix | 0784 | |
ISTAT number | 091057 | |
Popular name | olzaesi | |
Patron saint | Saint Barbara | |
Website | Olzai | |
Olzai is a small village on the slope of a valley in the western Barbagia Ollolai, in the province of Nuoro on the Italian island of Sardinia with 820 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). Olzai is 40 km southwest of Nuoro . The neighboring communities are: Austis, Nughedu Santa Vittoria (OR), Ottana, Sarule, Sedilo (OR), Sorradile (OR) and Teti.
Attractions
- In the Church of Santa Barbara hangs the archaic Retablo della Peste, commissioned after a plague (1477) . It is the only surviving retable, whose panels form a gable roof. It is the work of that unknown master (possibly that of Antonio Cavaro or his son Lorenzo) to whom the parts of a retable from the rural church of Santa Maria di Sibiola near Serdiana exhibited in the Cagliari Art Gallery are ascribed.
- The dolmen or the giant grave of S'Ena 'e sa Vacca is located directly above the Sedilo - Olzai road.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.