Mamoiada

Mamoiada, a small village in Sardinia's mountainous Barbagia region, is known across the island for its traditional carnival, in which participants wear the distinctive wooden masks of the mamuthones and issohadores. A local museum houses these masks alongside examples from elsewhere in Sardinia and Europe. The village sits in wine-producing country in the hills southwest of Nuoro, with a concentration of cafés and churches that exceeds what its size might suggest.

• Population2,544
• Nearest water0.6 km
• Nearest mountain4.2 km
• UNESCO within 50 km7