Perdasdefogu is an Italian commune of the Province of Ogliastra in Sardinia.

It includes/understands a polygon of shooting inter-arm (Salto di Quirra) where was launched the experimental first fused European. The remainders of a rocket were brought back… on an oxcart (Scene included in the mural fresco in the center of the village). Before the installation of military base, the village counted some 1.000 inhabitants (it counted 580 in 1850 of them according to Casalis). It counts of them today a little more 2.000.
Because of its insulation, Pardasdefogu was chosen, with Talana, another village of Ogliastra, as village-witness for genetic research within the framework of the " project; Genos Park".

Perdasdefogu shelters an old Romance church (San Sebastiano) dating from the 10th century, in the past with ground beaten and currently paved out of ground cuite.
For tourism, Perdasdefogu, enorgueillit of a natural park, a cascade (in period of rains!), of seven nuraghes (fortifications dating from the Bronze Age, in truncated cone), of the " domus of janas" (houses of fairies) and of two tombs of giants (approximately 4 m out of 20 m), several caves being the subject of recherches.
Actuellement, Perdas (diminutive very used by the inhabitants) has all the services which one can await from a modern commune: mechanics, mechanics, station, banks (with bancomat), offices of architects, keeps medical, a pharmacy and for the culture, a library, bookstores, and even a small theatrical team.

History of Perdasdefogu

According to the oral tradition of old, the first inhabitants of the village would be originating in a small village named Turu located on the Eastern coast, with the mouth of the river Flumendosa . They were an small group shepherds and peasants who, constrained to flee the incursions of the pirates buckwheats, and guided by a woman, were established in the heights of the current village, around the church of San Sebastiano, the oldest part of the village. The event is a little before the year thousand. According to researchers, the structure even of the church (three naves, rustic walls, niches sheltering either of the statues, or of the relics) as well as the ocher color appearing under the coating, just as the presence of the cross of Constantin testify to a Byzantine influence. The church was restored in 1996. The inauguration of the restored church was the theater in a concert of the violonist Alessio Murgia, royal orchestra of Turin.

Administration

Hamlets

Communes bordering

Ballao (CA), Escalaplano (CA), Seui, Ulassai, Villaputzu (CA)

Bonds external

• Perdasdefogu

• Ogliastra

• Salto di Quirra

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