Marking the start of the Carnival this Festa in January sees bonfires lit in all the towns and villages peolpe gather around the falmes to celebrate with local red wine, cheese, salami, cold mutton and fresh bread.

Karrasegare Osinku (Bosa Carnival) Festa di Cantina - February

On the Saturday evening prior to fat Tuesday (shrove Tuesday) it is tradition that all the small wine cantinas owned by local residents open their doors and offer wine to one an all, along with offering plates of kidney bean stew and boiled eggs. this is one of the livliest festa you will see with the narrow cobbled streets packed with revellers almost all in fancy dress or masked, there is a stage with entertainment in the piazza and stalls selling all sorts of things.

Karrasegare Osinku (Bosa Carnival) S'attidu - February

The culmination of the carnival as with others around the world is on Martedi grasso (fat tuesday) (Mardi Gras) on this day Bosa is throbbing from early on with masses of , normally very macho, big hairy local men dressed as old women, all in black with their faces blacked with burnt corks and carrying dolls. The premis is that they are an old woman who has had a baby but has no milk to feed it and so the mill around the streets crying out with a high pitched voices for someone the give them milk. Its absolutely chaotic and fuelled by local red wine but the atmosphere is electric. The fever pitch carries on for most of the morning.

Karrasegare Osinku (Bosa Carnival) Giolzi - February

At sunset on fat Tuesday the scene changes from black to white with all the locals dressed all in white they chase each other around shouting "Giolzi! Gilzi!". and those who are cought are subjected to a symbolic search, The night ends with bonfires being lit and efergies burt. This signifies the end of the Carnival.

Santa Maria del Mare - first Sunday in August

This colourful Festa held in the glare of the summer sun, the morning sees an efigy of the Madonna taken by procession from the church at Bosa Marina to the river where she is taken aboard a boat. this boat then ails upriver accompanied by many small craft all packed with people and sounding thier claxons. The Madonna is taken upriver to Bosa where she and the procession disembarcs and she is carried to the Cathedral where she rests for the day. Around 7p.m. she is taken from the Cathedral and the whole procession makes its way by river back to Bosa Marina. The whole weekend of this festa sees the main roads at bosa Marina shut off and many stalls set out. There are some great stalls that barbeque all sorts of local meats and delicasies.

Nostra Signora di Regnos Altos 2nd Sunday in September

This festa takes place in Bosa itself wher aprocession winds its way past many alters made by locals and erected at the side of the street to arrive at the small church of Nostra Signora di Regnos Altos inside Malaspina castle. There are lots of stalls set out around the base of the castle.

From Easter to the end of September is a succession of Feasts and Festivals

Both in the villages and the outlying churches.

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