Trinità d’Agultu E Vignola

Trinità d’Agultu e Vignola is a small Gallurese town of about 2,300 inhabitants located in north-central Sardinia, between Castelsardo and Santa Teresa Gallura.
It’s a relatively young municipality, considering it was part of the Aggius territory and only became autonomous in 1958. Today it includes the four urban centers of Trinità d’Agultu, La Paduledda, La Scalitta, Isola Rossa, and the two private F-zone developments of Calarossa and Costa Paradiso.
The town’s name derives from the Holy Trinity, to which the parish church is dedicated, and from the site, once called “Agultu”, where it stands. The first settlement was established in the early 1700s near the aforementioned rural church, and around it, in the second half of the 19th century, the inhabited center gradually developed, mainly populated by families from other Gallura centers and shepherds from nearby stazzi (traditional Gallurese farmhouses).
Over the centuries, the town has grown and the lifestyle of the population has changed, becoming the beautiful village it is today, characterized by an extraordinary environmental, cultural, and religious heritage.
In fact, in the vast Trinità territory, there are ten consecrated churches, not very significant from an artistic point of view but of undoubted ethnographic value. The history of the churches encapsulates the very history of Trinità d’Agultu e Vignola, a town that bears witness to a distant past where the ancient traditions typical of pastoral and rural civilization, still deeply felt by the local population today, coexist with the new social and cultural dynamics introduced by modernity.