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Tresnuraghes
Tresnuraghes
Comune
	Comune di Tresnuraghes
	San Giorgio
	Coat of arms
	Location of Tresnuraghes
	Tresnuraghes Location of Tresnuraghes in Sardinia Tresnuraghes Tresnuraghes (Sardinia)
	Coordinates: 40°15′N 8°31′E / 40.250°N 8.517°E
Country	Italy
Region	Sardinia
Province	Oristano (OR)
Frazioni	Porto Alabe
Area
• Total	31.55 km2 (12.18 sq mi)
Elevation	257 m (843 ft)
Population (Dec. 2004)
• Total	1,261
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Demonym	Tresnuraghesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	09079
Dialing code	0785
Patron saint	St. George
Saint day	April 23
Website	Official website

Tresnuraghes is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 130 kilometres (81 mi) northwest of Cagliari and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Oristano. The name means three nuraghes in Sardinian.

Geography

Tresnuraghes borders the following municipalities: Cuglieri, Flussio, Magomadas, Sennariolo.

Festivals

The Feast of Saint Mark is a traditional Sardinian feste, the most important one, which is a time of excess consumption that helps solidify the social community. Local shepherd families in this predominantly pastoral community offer sheep and oversee cooking them in a gesture of thanks to Providence. Other families offer bread as thanksgiving or for favors desired. Hundreds of people, mostly from Tresnuraghes, but a large number of outsiders as well, eat and drink to satiation together.^[3]

Demographic evolution

See table below.

The Tower of Columbargia as seen from Porto Alabe, a località in the Comune of Tresnuraghes

References

^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
^ Counihan, Carole, The Anthropology of Food and Body, p. 39