Summer Solstice in Sardinia

Francesca Floris

“It was the night of St John. Olì emerged from the whitewashed cantoniera on the edge of the road leading from Nuoro to Mamoiada…Olì  drew scarlet stripes and ribbons, with which he wanted to mark the St John’s flowers, i.e. the mullein, thyme and asphodel bushes to be picked the next day at dawn to […]