The ancient village of San Salvatore, built between the 1600s and 1700s is one of the most important cumbessias villages (accommodation for pilgrims) in the province. The small conglomerate was built around the church of the same name which, erected in the XVII century on top of the ancient hypogeum, is still attended by devotees. Indeed, the church is surrounded by sas cumbessias, small, bare houses built at the end of the XVII century for pilgrims to use during the novenas.
The small village’s similarity to American border landscapes meant it has been rented out to film directors, becoming a village in Arizona or New Mexico (saloon included) in films like ‘Garter Colt’ (1968). The Medieval town whose present-day appearance dates back to the times of the Spanish domination, shows traces of having been inhabited from very early on. This is clear not only from the presence of the hypogeum but also the ruins of Roman thermal baths from the Imperial age, the Domu ‘e Cubas
Each year, the traditional procession known as the “Corsa degli scalzi” (the barefoot race) is held on the first Sunday in September
