Tempio Pausania Holidays
The first name of "Temple", indicated by the term "Templum", is located in an ecclesiastical document of 1173 describes the conditions in which an administrative agreement between the prosecutor and the Bishop of Civita di Santa Maria di Pisa. Then the "Temple" is indicated, in a document dated 1300, with the name of "Villa Temples", as a rural center entrusted to the judge of Gallura. Posthumous obvious consideration: if the territory, headed "Temples (the first) and" Temple House "(later), was the center of trading, this means that, since the twelfth century, there was a settlement for residential and non-transhumant. Besides archaeological finds (nuraghi), geographical indications (place names) and anthropological aspects (traditions), giving a broad demonstration of the human presence and culture shaped by its inhabitants, before and after the medieval period under consideration.
Today the name "Temple" referring to the city is accompanied by the name "Pausanias," an approach that dates back to Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846) who wanted to retrieve it and preserve the ancient name of the Diocese, headed to the territory of Olbia, between 400 and 600 d. C., was gradually depopulated to transfer (for security reasons) the bishop and close the site.
The word "Phausania" as you wrote, then, originates from the name "pasan", a river that flows through the valley of "Newfoundland" and flows into the sea of the "Gulf of Olbia."