Gremi

The Gremi are the ancient guilds of Arts and Works that was born in Sassari during the Middle Ages, in way analogous to how much it happened in other Communes of Italy. They are certificates in the history of Sassari the followings it Filled: Agriculturists, who works the vegetable garden; Tailors and Shoemakers; Blacksmiths; Furrier, Cobblers and Miniaturists of skins, Cavallanti (or Wayfarers); Carpenters, Masons, Saddlers and I was Enough; Butchers, Furriers, Limed, Acquaioli, Laborers , Stonemason, Corradori, Painters. Some of them were considered “manni” because more ancient, the other ones were defined smaller. The it Filled they worked as of the religious brotherhoods and as associations of loan help and, their professional and religious activity was disciplined by the Statutes. In the XVI and in the XVII century they with a chapel was endowed for the celebration of the parties and for the burial of his/her own dead members. In 1846 a law of the Sardinian-of Piemonte Kingdom suppressed the ancient Guilds of work and their Statutes, so that the it Filled they maintained only the function of loan help and the religious value.
The components of the Gremio cover some precise positions set on different hierarchical levels.
The Most greater Obriere is the head and representative of the Gremio. He has the charge to organize the party patronale and to bring the standard in all the processions and the demonstrations officials.
The Obriere of Chandelier deals more properly him with to organize the descent of his/her own Chandelier; during the procession it unthreads co her "small " flag of the Gremio.
The Obriere of chapel takes care of the Chandelier during the whole year.
The chosen or Increase I am them those that have covered in passed the position of the Great Obriere.
The investiture of the new Great Obriere ends every year on the occasion of the party patronale of the Gremio, at the end of the Mass (to exception of the Massais, that receives the standard during the party Middle August).
Some gremiantis preserve today still the sumptuous suit of the noble in use in the Spanish age, particular that adds pomp to the procession of the party. Some members wear an ample cloak and a wide hat with ends abundance and puffs. The mans who works the vegetable garden also bring, on the corset, a ribbon of fluttering green silk, while the wayfarers wear lu cugliettu, the ancient leather apron. To the eight hundred bourgeois fashion the tailcoat, the rapiers and the feluches are inspired instead.
Also to the carriers of the Chandeliers has been assigned, since the end of the eight hundred, an own uniform, different for every Gremio, that has been during the time more times modified.