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Of the many medieval villages that once dotted the valleys of the Rio Sologo and Rio Cedrino, only this hamlet of Nuoro, in the Barbagia hills, has survived. Its narrow cobbled lanes and bare stone houses are now almost empty, having lost most of their people in the early 1960s. Local elders explain it with a legend: fleeing nuns cursed the village never to grow and never to die.

Highlights

• The old parish church of Santa Maria Maddalena
• Cobbled lanes and exposed-stone houses largely unchanged for centuries
• The nuns' curse: "like the sea, you will neither grow nor die"
• Ruined churches of San Bartolomeo and San Teodoro in the nearby Marreri valley

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.