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This privately-owned museum is located in Dorgali, inside a park full of water fed by the “S’Abba frisca” (“fresh water”) Spring. The main theme of this park-museum is revealed along two main itineraries: naturalistic and ethnographic.

The typical visit begins with the presentation of the plant species: narrow-leafed species, cade junipers, Phoenician junipers, carob trees, laurels, viburnums, tamarisks, lilacs, holm oaks, medicinal plants, thyme, peppermint, oregano, vegetables, and jujube.
Visitors can then discover workshops, equipment and the traditional farmers’ abodes, such as the “cuìle”, a typical goatherd’s hut made of basalt blocks with a conical juniper roof – it also features the very tools for processing milk. Then, there’s the farmer’s courtyard, with the donkey wheel, the ox cart, the plough and several other original tools. Not to mention the stock warehouse, with cork silos for storing cereals, harnesses for pack animals, ropes and cattle branding equipment.
Visitors may also enjoy the blacksmith’s corner, with a XIX-century bellows, the forge, the equipment and a machine for shoeing oxen.

After all those interesting and most evoking exhibits, there’s the showcase of fossils and plants: the ancient ones (Taxus baccata, terebinth, and holly), the dyeing ones (walnut, holm oak, phillyrea, Italian buckthorn, heather, elm leaf blackberry, and flax-leaved daphne), centuries-old olive trees, the mulberry trees that still evoke the local silkworm breeding tradition from Dorgali, stone pines, thujas, and elms.

Along the way, visitors will come across the stone wash house, still fitted with a cast iron pump, the tools for the preparation of lye, and several containers for the laundry. The adjacent room houses several sections: two XIX-century bedrooms with oak-beamed ceilings, complete with original furnishings and linens; the tools for wool processing, with two ancient looms, fabrics, everyday clothes and festive costumes; a XIX-century gig, a collection of wheels, some musical instruments, several tools for wine and oil production, as well as a collection of medicines obtained from officinal plants. The last room is called “sa coghina ‘e coghere” and features an oven and the tools for the production of the typical “carasau” bread.

Outside, the path runs across dwarf palms, myrtles, strawberry trees, rock roses, mastic trees, olive trees and rowans, alternating with traditional stone mangers. Oleanders of several colours and Arizonian cypresses can be found at the end of this suggested route.

The two itineraries are thoughtfully intertwined to evoke and underscore the very balance between man and nature.

Text source: https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/it/esplora/parco-museo-sabba-frisca
Photo source: https://confcooperative.nuoroogliastra.it/project/parco-museo-s-abba-frisca/

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