The history of Posada:

• The origin of the POSADA name derives from Pausada or Pasada best that in dialetto it wants to say rested, zone of pause or rest, stopped. In effects the old POSADA rose in correspondence of an important determined viario crossing from coming from connections from the sea and the entroterra, with roads that connected Terranoa (Olbia) to Cagliari, where the viandanti and the shepherds were usual to sostare in order to rest, in order to water the horses or in order to make to svernare the cattle and subsequently thanks to the fertile earth were settled down definitively, moreover it was zone of port and therefore of connection with the continent. In the course of the pisana domination, for infuence of the Tuscany speech it came subsequently called Pasata and, towards the 1300 divenne definitively POSADA thanks to the Spanish conquest of the Arogonesi. They were the Etruschi to found, where hour rises Posada, called FERONIA therefore from the name of the tutrice divinity of the Toschi, the goddess Feronia; of this period we have conserved a statuetta bronzea that comes from POSADA that represents the type of the italico Eracle of the end of the IV sec. To C., is conserved in the museum of Cagliari. In the Middle Ages, thanks to the territorial conformation (mounts to the west, sea to east, and a valley in the center), were prechosen in order to accommodate a hospital held from the Friars of S. Vittore, from Customs of know them, a Curia Reigns, and given the strategic position on the neighbor Mola or Rocca it came erected the CASTLE Of the FAVA, constructed in the XII sec. that it predominates still the valley, mounts and the sea.
  

la leggenda :

• The CASTLE Of the FAVA takes the name from a legend that narrates that when the Saraceni disembarked to Posada in order to conquer it and to steal to the treasures of the Judge (Caretaker), found all the population hidden in the Mure and the Tower. The Saraceni, because the Mure was high and strong, camped in the beach to wait for that the Sardinians died of hunger and silks, but the caretaker of the Castle (Judge) gave the last FAVA to a dove in order to reinforce it and to make yes that it could carry a message to the near legions; as the colombina was previewed came captured, when the Moors found the Fava in its stomach thought that the Sardinians, since had therefore much food from being able to give it to a dove, were in a position to resisting in order much time, while they came decimate you from the malaria (swampy zone), therefore preferred left the country, which she saved thanks to the last one fava remained. In the XIV they came constructed WALLS to them to defense of the Village, then subsequently the TOWERS and the DOORS the inhabitants were sheltered within the border of the Mure because of the innumerevoli wars between Arborea and Aragon and for the incursions of the Saraceni. In 1388 it came constructed to the SANT' CHURCH ANTONIO ABBOT, beyond that Parish for the people, acted as also from Nail head of court and Cimiteriale, in fact in the vicinities of the church close to the scales in order to go up to the Castle of the Fava human boneses can be seen in cliffs, since all that area was a cemetary.It be cleared more times in various periods, today is agricultural zone, with citrus groves and olive groves, and the breeding of ovines and bovines to the state brado. Become E' tourist goal after to have improved the practicability and after the constructions of hotel structures, of the airport and widened the port of Olbia, and that one of Fastens It that it is for half of Posada and the other half is of Siniscola. Many historical monuments currently are in restructure in order to bring back them to the splendor of a time, the house of the Checkerses etc.., the same castle has been reconstructed more times and the Church of Sant' Antonio Abbot who is a national monument ( continuous... )