You are right to state that Arzachena registers its birth in the prehistorical eve, even though the first news of that inhabited centre are dated back to the pre-romanic eve.
In the Roman eve it was called Turublum Minor (or Minus) and very few pieces of news have passed hand by hand till nowadays.
The small burgh transformed its name in Arsaquena or Arsaquen in the giudicatos eve, when it counted 100/150 inhabitants.
The 14th century was a very hard age for that village taht saw the landing of Aragonese and the wars against the judges of Arborea, five plagues epidemies, the malary and the barbarian invasions.
In 1500 Arsaquena, the capital town of the medieval guardianship of Unale, it was completely deprived of inhabitants above all because of the terrible plague of 1375-1376.
All the stripe of Gallura coast area remained half-desert for some centuries.
Only at the beginning of 1700 it started the repopulation thanks to the birth of 'stazzi', the country settlements comparable to the modern farms, where famlies lived dedicated to cattle breeding or vegetables growings.
Arzachena was born in effect in 1716 as a small group of houses around the small church of Saint Mary in Arzaghena.
The small place was a will of government that tried to repopulate Gallura area and the submission of Gallurese.
Between 1774 and 1776 the main church of the village changed its name and became Saint Maria Maggiore, around which the village started to expand itself.
About at the end of 19th century Arzaquena starts to grow even by the economical point of view but that expansion is so limited to the isolation: Tempio Pausania, its head town, is just 42 km far and Terranova (Olbia) and Palau weren't reachable so easily.
As to complicate affairs the closer port was that of La Maddalena.
In 1920, for various events, even bureaucratic, the name of the village changed from Arzaghena to the actual 'Arzachena'.
The autonomy of the Commune is a unique case because it come out in the full fascist eve, when the trends of self-government were only an utopia and the central authority tended to reinforce itself more and more.
Even 1926 is an important year because the Olbia-Palau road is created by getting over the mythic isolation of Gallura.
Enogastronomy
The soup (la zuppa)
the most important dish in the occasion of marriages and main parties, continues to be the first one even in prestigious restaurants.
Li chjiusoni (gnocchi): the use of that recipe for every first of august has a ritual meaning: the souls of death people pass along the town roads; on the windows and low heights you use to place a dish full of gnocchi with a bottle of wine.
Li pulicioni (i ravioli): in Gallura the filling of cottage cheese, eggs and lemon is added of sugar, in relation to the familiar census as you used to say.
Fascioli and taddarini (beans soup), Risu cu li pulpeddi (rice with sausage pulp).
Second dishes
La rivea: liver on the spit.
La colda: liver on the pan
Lu cascjufurriatu: melted cheese with honey or sugar.
La mazza frissa: cream and flour with honey or sugar
Bread
Lu pani budditu: the boiled bread with pasta in decorative forms
Dolci
Lu pani e sabba: tyopical cake for All Saints eve
Li papassini: Christmas cake
Li cucciuleddi: with honey or cooked moist
Li niuleddi: with honey, almonds and toasted pasta
L'acciuleddi: carnival's cake, fried sweet pasta with honey.
Li friscioli longhi: it is a first, second meal and cake used for carnival's eve
Li casciatini (smal cheese pies): Easter's cakes
L'uciatini: it is done with the rests of fat lard handling
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