Gonnosfanàdiga, a town in the province of Sub Sardinia, formerly called “Gonnos de Montannia”, is divided into two nuclei by the Pìras stream:
Gònnos, perched on the mountain, with a plan divided into cells, and Fanàdiga, in a flatter area, with a radial arrangement.
The territory appears to have been inhabited since prehistoric times, studies date the first certain visits to the ancient Neolithic, which took place between the sixth and fourth millennium BC. in the territory of Terra ‘e Seddari and with at least nine other settlements of which traces have been found.
In the Pal’e Pardu region, there are still some remains of one of the oldest nuraghi on the island, or rather of a Protonuraghe.
There are two main historical monuments in the village: the parish church of S. Barbara (with a basilica with three naves dating back to the XVI-XVII century, eighteenth-century transept and presbytery) and the rural church of S. Severa (along a cart track outside from the inhabited area), with a dome at the intersection of the arms, modified by the traditional portico.
The quantity and history of public wells, which are very numerous, still count about fifty, but there were many more in the past, is interesting.
They were of great importance both for their main purpose of water supply for the town and for their non-negligible function as a meeting point and meeting point for the population of the various districts. Even today, numerous streets and districts bear the name derived from the well that persisted in the area.
Today they have lost both these functions, a water resource and a social meeting place but still for the Gonnesi they are an important topographical point of reference and historical memory, as well as being a reason of architectural and tourist interest.
The surrounding area, largely covered by a thick scrub of holm oaks, is suitable for excursions and trekking: to M. Cuccurèddus 716 m; at the Punta Perda de Sa Mesa 1236 m, the highest peak of Lìnas; to the ruins of Serru, a village destroyed in the 16th century by an assault by the Barbareschi.
