Ozieri () is a ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' (municipality) of approximatively 11,000 inhabitants in the

province of Sassari The province of Sassari (; ; ; ; ) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia, Italy. Its capital was the city of Sassari. On 1 April 2025, the province was suppressed in favor of the new Metropolitan City of Sassari, which corres ...

, in the

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region of

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, in the

Logudoro The Logudoro (; ) is a large historical region Sardinia, Italy. It is the namesake of the Logudorese dialect of Sardinian language, Sardinian, which covers a large area of northern-central Sardinia. The first denomination of the area is contai ...

historical region. Its cathedral of the Immacolata is the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ozieri. Ozieri is the centre of the earliest known archaeological culture on Sardinia (known as

Ozieri culture The Ozieri culture (or San Michele culture) was a prehistoric Pre-Nuragic Sardinia, pre-Nuragic culture that occupied Sardinia from c. 3200 to 2800 BCE. The Ozieri was the culmination of the island's Neolithic culture and takes its name from the l ...

Main sights

* The Cathedral of the Immacolata dates from the 15th century and was restored from 1550 to 1571. It has a nave and two aisles and houses a polyptych of the Madonna di Loreto (16th century), the work of a local master. *

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of Sant'Antioco di Bisarcio, one of the largest Romanesque churches in Sardinia. * Grotte di San Michele (3500–2700 BC) - Ozieri gives its name to the

, a prehistoric civilization whose first findings were excavated in the local caves of San Michele starting from 1914. * Pont'ezzu, a Roman bridge dating to the 2nd century AD and restored in the 3rd–4th century AD. It has six arcades for a total length of * Civic Archaeological Museum "Alle Clarisse", one of the most important museums in Northern Sardinia, with an archaeological, numismatic, and ethnographic collection that dates from

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to the modern age.

Transportation

Ozieri can be reached from Sassari through the SS.597 National Road and by Olbia (SS.199). The city has a railway station located in the ''frazione'' of Chilivani (lines to

Olbia Olbia (, ; ; ) is a city and communes of Italy, commune of 61,000 inhabitants in the Italy, Italian insular province of Sassari in northeastern Sardinia, Italy, in the historical region of Gallura. Called in the Roman age, Civita in the Middle ...

Porto Torres Porto Torres (; ) is a (municipality) and a city of the Province of Sassari in north-west of Sardinia, Italy. Founded during the 1st century BC as , it was the first Roman colony of the entire Sardinia, island. It is situated on the coast at abo ...

and

Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,62 ...

People

* Luca Sbisa (born 1990), professional

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player * Mariangela Demurtas, musician Tristania

Twin towns

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, Italy *

Maranello Maranello ( Modenese: ) is a city of Italy in the province of Modena, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, 18 km from Modena, with a population of 17,504 as of 2017. It is known worldwide as the home of Ferrari and the Formula One racing team, ...

, Italy

References

External links

Official website
Cities and towns in Sardinia {{Sardinia-geo-stub