Hamlet of San Salvatore di Sinis

The picturesque hamlet of San Salvatore di Sinis, located a short distance from the Cabras pond, looks like an old uninhabited village.
But actually it originated around the namesake rural church: on the occasion of novenaries (9-day religious ceremonies) hundreds of pilgrims from the surrounding region gathered there to celebrate San Salvatore.
So dozens and dozens of "cumbessias" (small temporary lodgings made up of one single room) were built around the church to accommodate pilgrims; once the novenaries ended, the pilgrims left and the cumbessias became empty again.
Over time, some of these little houses changed into private structures, but still today, between the end of August and the beginning of September, the village is repopulated for the feast of the patron, when the "Corsa degli Scalzi" takes place. This is a procession undertaken by hundreds of men from Cabras to San Salvatore - running barefoot and carrying a statue.
The church dates back to the Middle Ages, but the place was sacred since prehistoric age: just under the building there is a subterranean space of 5 rooms around a central circular room where is the sacred Nuragic well. Here it was celebrated the worship of waters that were considered curative since the Neolithic.
The hypogeum - attended since the Nuragic times and then remodeled in the late Roman period (III-IV century AD) - contains drawings and inscriptions in Punic, Greek, Latin and even Arabic characters, to witness a continuum of religiosity.
A curiosity: the village was used as a movie set for some "Spaghetti Westerns" in the 60s and 70s.

The village is at the first km coming from Cabras to the North, along the s.p. 7.
Here's my route: komoot.com/tour/15878896

Beautiful semi-abandoned village. Theater of a Western movie.

beautiful village whose church hides a beautiful crypt