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The hamlet of Sant'Andria is part of a medieval organisation of the territory still visible in the municipality of Santa Lucia di Tallà. The settlements, grouped into small communities, often families, were built on small hills. The torra (fortified house) bears witness to this troubled past. It is a typical construction from the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era (15th and 16th centuries). These fortified settlements were born out of a desire to protect the surrounding communities, but also to express the power and might of the family that owned them. Breaches above the gates allowed access to be protected by pouring boiling water or oil on attackers. At the end of the Middle Ages, the village was decimated by the plague. Oral tradition maintains and tells us that the sick dragged themselves to the ark in the chapel of San Roccu, (an auxiliary patron saint against the plague). The dying pushed the dead into the ark (collective burial). The population was completely wiped out and replaced by other families who came to reoccupy the place. In the 19th century it was a municipality and then it was included in the municipality of Santa Lucia di Tallà. It owes its name to a religious building dedicated to Sant'Andria that was built there. The present church was built on top of the older building, which had become too small due to population growth in the modern era. The economy of the village was based on cereals, olive oil and vines. The entire area was heavily cultivated as evidenced by the numerous terraces. There are also many orchards with old varieties. The footpath (there and back) descends through the olive grove to the ring road that leads to the Fragnonu mill and the village.

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