San Pietro was a cathedral from the 11th century until 1418, the year in which the diocese of Barbaria, including Trexenta, merged with that of Cagliari. The vicissitudes of the church of San...
San Pietro was a cathedral from the 11th century until 1418, the year in which the diocese of Barbaria, including Trexenta, merged with that of Cagliari. The vicissitudes of the church of San...
His story is shrouded in legend and steeped in deep devotion. He had a close bond with the largest Romanesque building in Sardinia, located in a panoramic position. The church of San Gavino A Mare, also known as the church of Balai...
From the colourful houses in the village of Bosa, travelling one kilometre along the Temo river, you will reach the locality of Calamedia, a site that was already inhabited in the Phoenician-Punic age: here,...
It looks out onto a square in the southwestern outskirts of Sassari, once open countryside. You will get to San Pietro di Silki via an avenue that runs alongside the walls of the former Franciscan monastery, attached to the...
One of the few completely frescoed Sardinian churches, an architectural monument that is the result of nine centuries of reconstructions and restorations, the last complete one of which was in 1996-99. The parish church of Sant'Elena stands in the...
The alternation of austere black-purple basalt of the walls and of dynamic pink trachyte in the arches and columns forms a unique two-tone that renders it mysterious and fascinating. From its vantage point atop a knoll in an isolated yet prominent...
A sumptuous and harmonious superimposition of architectural styles, “and yet one would not want to take anything away from it”, as the writer Elio Vittorini said when he saw it. The basilica is named after St Nicholas of Bari, a cathedral since 1441,...
A village in the centre of Sardinia comes alive as worshippers fill it twice a year, in May and October, while during the rest of the year it brings an atmosphere of mysticism and sacredness to a place that is, in itself, magical, where the rituals of...
