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Provinces of Sardinia: Oristano

The town stands 9 m. above sea level on the northern Campidano plain, between the left bank of the lower Tirso River and the S. Giusta Lake, a few kilometres from the Gulf of Oristano. Founded in c. 1070 by the inhabitants of nearby Tharros, victims of Saracen raids, from the 13th-15th centuries Oristano was the chief town of the duchy of Arborea. A centre of Sardinian resistance against the Aragonese, it finally lost its autonomy in 1477, declining in the centuries of Spanish domination. With the coming of the Savoys in 1718, however, its fortunes prospered, though troubled by rebellion and revolution of a populace attempting to abolish the feudal system. It is the most recently instituted provincial chief town (1974).

Its monuments include: the Duomo (13th century, reconstructed in 1743), with Romanesque and Gothic elements, the church of S. Chiara (partly Gothic), the church of S. Francesco (neo-classical), the church of the Carmine (Baroque, 18th century), the church of ... Read More...