It connects the two patronal seats, passing through the episcopal one, through a path between the places of worship that, with the thread of the universal history of Christianity, allows to connect the Anglona to Gallura. We are talking about the Via dei Patroni.
A journey through nature, art and spirituality from Olbia to Castelsardo, traced by the Diocese of Tempio Ampurias and presented this morning in the Basilica of San Simplicio in Olbia, in the presence of the bishop, Monsignor Roberto Fornaciari, the archaeologist who curated the project, Simone Falqui, and the director of the Euromediterranean Institute, Don Giorgio Diana. Five stages among the religious sites of the journey that starts from the patron saint of Castelsardo, Sant'Antonio Abate, stops at the church of Nostra Signora di Monte Alma in Nulvi, continues to the cathedral of San Pietro in Tempio Pausania, passes through the Hermitage of Saints Nicolò and Trano in Luogosanto and ends at the Basilica of the martyr Simplicio, wandering among the figures who have represented the religious history of the diocese and among the suggestive landscape of the territories that guard it.
A spiritual journey to (re)discover the depth of the evangelical message through cultural heritage but also an experience of inner research among the slow rhythms of nature, culture and traditions told by the authentic welcome of the communities, between the Municipalities of Tergu, Sant'Antonio di Gallura, Martis, Laerru, Perfugas and Bortigiadas. All that is missing is the signage indicating the itinerary that will be marked with the stylised logo of the diocese of Tempio Ampurias, Via dei Patroni is almost ready to be travelled and in anticipation of the next Jubilee it aims to become a main road.
"The project is part of a broader regional project to relaunch the territory that goes beyond the promotion of summer tourism resources, encouraging the enhancement of naturalistic, archaeological and socio-anthropological assets and our diocese has joined the Region's proposal, in agreement with the Sardinian Episcopal Community, to present a project that involves the assets and communities included in the territory under our jurisdiction: the Via dei Patroni is a route for wayfarers and pilgrims that allows you to encounter places that are a bit special because they have both a spiritual and religious value and an artistic and naturalistic value, and it is designed, in addition to the faithful, also for tourists who appreciate an alternative holiday to the sea between valleys and woods to be covered slowly on foot or by bicycle", explained the bishop of the diocese that includes thirty-one municipalities and extends for almost two thousand seven hundred square kilometers.
