The works of the first 2025 excavation campaign in the medieval village on the outskirts of the city of Sorso are nearing completion in these days, carried out thanks to a collaboration agreement signed by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Sassari and Nuoro, the University of Sassari (Department of History, Human Sciences and Education) and the Municipality of Sorso.

In the excavation area, the remains of houses burned down around 1350 and the discovery of buried parts of even older dwellings, dating back to 1200 with traces of life that date back to as far as 1000 and 1100 .

The results of the excavations were presented this morning in the archaeological area of Geridu by Professor Marco Milanese, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Sassari, in the presence of the Superintendent for Sassari and Nuoro, architect Isabella Fera, the archaeologist Gabriella Gasperetti, and the mayor of Sorso Fabrizio Demelas.

In presenting the results of the most recent excavation investigations, conducted between 2024 and May 2025, Milanese recalled how Geridu today represents the medieval archaeological site in Sardinia most subjected to stratigraphic investigations and the most famous site of Sardinian medieval archaeology, both nationally and internationally.

«Among the many new discoveries brought to light by the excavations among the remains of the village houses - he explained - there are also ceramics from Sicily or Tunisia, dating between 1000 and 1100, which demonstrate how already at the dawn of the Middle Ages the community of Geridu had the economic availability that allowed it to purchase those same exotic goods that the mercantile aristocracy of Pisa and Genoa used and that decorated with their bright colors the facades of Romanesque churches in vast areas of the Western Mediterranean».

For the first time after years of research, the judicial villa of Geridu has been brought to light , after a long phase of work on the village in the fourteenth century, in which the inhabitants were subject to duties towards the Catalan-Aragonese feudalism. And again, investigating in the area of the parish church of Geridu dedicated to Sant'Andrìa, built around 1330 in Gothic-Catalan style, the truly exceptional discovery, in the remains of the construction site of the new and monumental church, of parts of the Romanesque church of the eleventh century of the village from the judicial era.

An incredible material testimony that the Aragonese feudalism intended to impress on the community of Geridu (the village had over 1500 inhabitants at the time of the Aragonese invasion of Sardinia), replacing the ancient Romanesque building from the Giudicato era with the new monument in the style of the rulers.

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