The Descent of the Candelieri is a event that has preserved for many centuries its principals aspects, compares the few documentary sources. The literary testimonies increase in the century XIX, during which historical, writers and travellers have described the principal phases of the event. From the reading of these texts you/he/she can be observed as the Faradda is slowly changed.

The event indeed Middle August represented in past as the greatest city solemnity.
Therefore he participated with the suit of frill, and also the Course Vittorio Emanuele was decorated for the occasion, as partly it happens today still. The event recalled in the city many inhabitants of the countries and also, according to an observer of the epoch, "canters' hundreds in near Corsica." There was no anchor, however, the as crowd that he/she is seen today. Vittorio Angius, that in the first decades of the century XIX compiled the voice Sassari for the Geographical and Historical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Sardinia it described so the procession:


" When this procession is well already explained from the church of S. Caterina down for the plaza, then a magnificent glimpse is had, in the two files of the houses, that flank the road, and in the windows, you protect of splendid carpets, and full of people, where in first order are the women put in frill; in the road all stowed of spectators, where however it is open enough space to the passage of the Candelieri sustained by the laborers, which reciprocate him; and in the great number of the ribbons, that they are kept from the members of the arts before and behind the Candeliere , others more extended and others less, and they do with their manifold colours a sort of vague irradiation."

What attracted the attention of the observatories it was then the final phase of the event, in the area around the church of Saint Maria. The demonstration had some evident similarities with the other popular parties of the island, both for the presence of performers and stands of every kind, both because the Sardinian dance was danced.
We still reread a passage of the Angius:

" When the people that already filled the cities, both everything assembled around this church, is able a stranger to make a correct idea of what they are the great popular parties of Sardinia, and to admire the dances and to hear the songs that prolong him to the late hours of the night, and they were also extended more in other times."

To the beginnings of the 900 the situation was not changed, when a folklorist, collaborator of the Historical file for the Popular Traditions, wrote (it was the year 1902 ):