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Carnevale, maschera di Mamuthones a Mamoiada. Foto di Massimo Mastrorillo, da ISRE

Carnival in Sardinia

Carnival in Sardinia has a thousand fascinating faces. The ancient one of the suggestive Barbarian carnivals that - with their ancestral anthropomorphic and zoomorphic masks, the robes of goat skins, orbs and cowbells - recall mysterious rites, propitiatory dances and a close relationship between man and animal. The vibrant one of horseback carnivals, such as that of Oristano (“Sa Sartiglia”), during which the knights must put a metal star on the run, a hope for a good harvest, and that of Santulusorgi (“Sa Carrela 'e nanti”) in which the knights show their value, courage and skill, challenging themselves in reckless races through the city center. Or the irreverent one in Tempio with the puppet of King George being tried and burned in the square, without forgetting the symbolism of Bosa's

disguises.

White Bosa masks and ritual fires

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The spontaneous celebration of the community that involves all the inhabitants, characterized by parodistic and satirical aspects

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Masks of s'Urthu and sos Buttudos. Photo by RAS Press Office, from Sardegna Digital Library

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The fight between man and nature: S'Urthu is the animal and Sos Buttudos the men who try to tame it

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Masks by sos Tumbarinos by Gavoi. Photo by Franco Stefano Ruiu, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Since Shrove Thursday, hundreds of drummers spread the din of ancient musical instruments: music is the main mask

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Lodè, a glimpse of the historic center. Photo by Comune di Lodè, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Carnival of Lodè

Sas Mascara Netas and sas Mascara Bruttas: two groups, two rituals in opposition to each other

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Lodine, lago di Gusana, Foto di Comune di Lodine, da Sardegna Digital Library

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Carnival of Lodine

Sas Umpanzias, men dressed as widows, try and sentence the puppet of Su Ziomo to the stake

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Su Battileddu mask by Lula. Video frame by Stefano Bitti, from Sardegna DL

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On Battileddu, impressive mask protagonist, sacrificial victim of Sos Battileddos, his guardians

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Carnevale, maschera di Mamuthones a Mamoiada. Foto di Massimo Mastrorillo, da ISRE

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Carnevale di Mamoiada

I Mamuthones incedono lentamente, curvi sotto il peso dei campanacci, al ritmo scandito dagli Issohadores

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Ollolai, group of girls in festive attire. Photo by Renato Brotzu, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Ollolai Carnival

Sos Turcos, sa Marizzola, Maria Vressada, Maria Ishoppa and sa Mamm'e and on Sun, on Caprarju, on Ziomu, the masks

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Frame from the video “Intintos - Images of the Olzai Carnival”, by Ignazio Figus, from Sardegna DL

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SOS Intintos, SOS Murronarzos and SOS Maimones dance in the square accompanied by their doorman

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Carnival of Oniferi, SOS Maimones mask playing a carved horn

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Oniferi Carnival

The main mask: Sos Maimones, with his face blackened by soot obtained from burnt cork

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The mask of Orani 'Su Bundhu'. Photos from Sardegna Digital Library

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Su Bundu half-human, half-bovine creature with red cork mask and long horns

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Amazon and knights. Sartiglia 2023. Photo by Flavio Testa, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Carnival of Oristano

Su Componidori, man and woman at the same time, and the race to the ring, emblem of the judicial and chivalrous tradition of Oristano

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Sos Thurpos mask by Orotelli. Photo by Lorenzo Mele, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Orotelli Carnival

With a grotesque spirit, the Thurpos stage propitiatory rites for the fertility of the earth and the relationship between man and nature

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Ottana, Merdùles' mask

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Carnival of Ottana

Merdùles, Boes, Porcos, Molentes, Crapolos, men disguised as animals interpret scenes of peasant and pastoral life

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Ovodda, women dressed up for the Sos Intintos procession. Photo by Alessandra Lai, from Sardegna DL

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Ovodda Carnival

Don Conte, a puppet of rags accompanied through the streets of the town from the SOS Intintos procession until his death at the stake

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Samugheo Carnival, small mamutzones. Photo by Franco Cerniglia, from Sardegna DL

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Samugheo Carnival

Mamutzones, s'Urtzu, on 'Omadore and on Traga Cortgius: masks that dance simulating the fight of goats in love

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Santu Lusha Carnival. Photo by RAS Press Office, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Santu Lusorgu Carnival

Sa Carrela 'e Nanti: the reckless and spectacular draw race of the colored knights on clay roads

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Sarule Carnival

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Sarule Carnival

Sa Maschera a Gattu: two upside-down skirts, a white cover symbol of birth, a black veil symbol of death

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Tempio Pausania Carnival

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Carnevale di Tempio Pausania

L’entrata trionfale di Re Giorgio con la sfarzosa sfilata di carri allegorici segna l'inizio del carnevale, il falò in cui brucia segna la fine

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Traditions carnevale

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