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For five centuries, every year, the Faradda has been renewing the vow made to the Virgin Mary of the Assumption (Madonna Assunta). It originated in Pisa, at a time when Sassari was one of its colonies. The first celebrations date back to the 13th century, with the offering of candles to the Virgin Mary, in mid-August, by the town's trade corporations. The first evidence documenting this goes back to 1504. Along with the traditional offering, the deeper value of the vow made to the Virgin Mary was added, the intercession of whom led to the end of an epidemic of the plague. According to the Sassari-born historian Enrico Costa, the institution of the celebration with this meaning took place in 1528. After this, the celebration remained 'uncontaminated' for five centuries, becoming enriched over the years with goliardic spirit and pomp. This is a brief stori from an article to emplane the Faradda, after 22 years leaving in Ireland a missed all the Faradda (downhill) in the last 22 year, with a nostalgic idea from my childhood of the faradda, I decide to cam back to it with a reportage from dawn till dusk
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