Perfugas

Perfugas
Country	Italy
region	Sardinia
province	Sassari  (SS)
Local name	Pèifugas / Pèlfica
Coordinates	40 ° 50 '  N , 8 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 50 '0 "  N , 8 ° 53' 0"  E
height	90  m slm
surface	60.29 km²
Residents	2,343 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	39 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	07034
prefix	079
ISTAT number	090056
Popular name	Perfughesi
Website	Perfugas

Perfugas ( Sardinian Peifugas ) is a municipality in the Italian province of Sassari in Sardinia with 2343 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Attractions

The village is known nationwide for the fountain sanctuaries Predio Canopoli and Fonte Niedda and the Museo Archeologico e Paleobotanico .

The parish church of Santa Maria degli Angeli with the Retablo di San Giorgio , an altarpiece from the 14th century consisting of numerous pictures, which has been on display again since 1995 after a long restoration, is worth seeing . Opposite the church is the also restored Nuragic fountain sanctuary Predio Canopoli . The stairs that lead from the vestibule with the sacrificial altar and the benches to the spring are particularly well preserved.

The highlight of the exhibition at the local museum are the flint stones discovered in 1979 in the alluvial land of the Riu Altana - artefacts from the Paleolithic Age between 500,000 and 120,000 years ago. They are the oldest stone tools in Sardinia. Previously it was assumed that Sardinia was only settled around 8,000 years ago. Relics of the Ozieri culture , Nuragic, Phoenician , Punic and medieval finds are also on display. Fossils can also be found from the “petrified forest” ( foresta petrificada ) near Martis and from other sites in the Anglona , the origin of which dates back 30–15 million years.

Two kilometers north is the small Catalan country church of San Giorgio and the Nuraghe Sas Ladai.

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  Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli

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  Predio Canopoli

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  Petrified forest

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  Chiesa di San Giorgio

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  Nuraghe di San Giorgio

traffic

Perfugas has a stop on the Sassari – Palau railway line . The station is regularly served by trains of the " Trenino Verde " in summer , which run from Sassari to Tempio Pausania , where there are connections to trains to Palau .

Web links

Commons : Perfugas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Retablo di San Giorgio Perfugas (photo)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Museum of Archeology and Paleobotany Perfugas