Engagement and marriage
In the past, for the young, it was not simple, during the engagement, to know each other and to see one another because of the excessive severity of the parents and because of the rules that they had to respect.The elderly of our village have...
Gastronomy
Mediterranean, characterized by the insularity, by the agro-pastoral culture and prepared with poor ingredients, but original and natural, the Sardinian cookery presents a big heritage of typical dishes.The cooperation of the elderly of our town allows...
Houses and streets
Thanks to the testimonies collected by interviewing the elderly of the town, it has been possible to know the old look of the homes. During the years, they have been modified above all because of the frequent floods.Most of the houses, were made of mud...
Sardinian handicraft
Sardinian society and economy were always based on two main productive activities: agriculture and sheep farming that regulated social and domestic life of every town, Uta included.Among the artisans, we find:
Su ferreri (blacksmith) Su maistu ‘e l...
Sardinian medicines
The formulas were jealously guarded and in most cases they remained secret, in the hands of few people that looked after handing on a selected person.Essential ingredients of Sardinian medicines were herbs (among them we remember mallow –anarbedda i...
The school
The collected testimonies inform that the first school building was where now there is Piazza Monumento, “a mesu bidda” (in the past this place was called in that way).It is remembered as a building not suitable to give hospitality to students because of ...
Toys and games
Children and teenagers of today do many activities and often they have no time to play, but above all no time to invent new games, because they have a lot of toys and pastimes more or less technological. That did not happen in the past, when children...