EXCURSIONS On demand, our hotel organizes and plans excursions in Thiesi’s countryside with the aim to let our clients show the real, authentic aspects of the most ancient pastoral sardinian traditions. A wild incontaminated nature is the background in which is possible to have an outdoor lunch tasting the sheperds cuisine: a local cheese made by sheep’s milk named pecorino, some meat and good wine. Around the end of the spring we can assist to the sheep-shearing known as “tundidura ”, a date which the sheperds community considers as a real event. The sheep-shearing represents a very important moment for the whole sheperds life and a real feast during which people organize sumptuous banquets, parties and dances. The visit can be extended to some old beautiful country churches and well preserved nuraghi. Basilica SS. Trinità of Saccargia The Basilica of Saccargia, one of the most romanesque pisan significative monuments, can be reached from Sassari through the main street in less than ten minutes. (SS 597) The church, situated in a green valley near the village of Codrongianos, has a wonderful bell tower which can be seen from long distances and next to it are still visible the ruins of the old Camaldolite monastery Saccargia was built on 1116 over the remains of a small monastery under the order of the Judge of Torres Costantino I and his wife Marcusa di Gunale; and the following year, in 1117, the church was consacrated and given to the camaldolites monks. During the xv century the Aragonese government accused the monks to pursue earthly aims and they were ordered to leave the monastery. After the monks left, the abbey was first given to an abbot and three centuries later to the Archbishop of Torres. Since 1957 the Basilica belongs to the parish church of Codrongianos. The Nuraghe of Santu Antine Santu Antine, situated in the village of Torralba, 25 miles from Sassari,it is undoubtely one of the greatest and best preserved megalithic monuments of Sardinia. Its structure is made by a central body, an 18 metres tall tower, developed on three different floors on which it was built a rampart having three circular towers. This particularly complex structure gives a triangular shape to the whole building. The nuragic village is composed by small circular hunts and ends in an inner courtyard where is still visible a well used to keep water. For its stateliness, this prehistorical which dates back around XV – XIV b.C is known as Reggia Nuragica.