The Romanesque church of St. Anthony the Abbot (Sant’Antoni de su fogu) is attributed to the first half of the 13th century; it is an important indicator of some demographic consistency in the village at the time and of possible local investment by the seigniorial power. Located on the northern outskirts of the town, near today’s Via degli Orti, it was probably the religious center most used by peasants and castle dwellers belonging to the less affluent social classes.
Importantly, on this building there is the so-called “pilgrim’s footprint,” which pilgrims carved on the walls of churches to testify, through the symbolism of the sock, their passage there.
The facade is decorated with a rose window and a delicate frieze above the gateway in the form of a pointed arch. At the top of the two piovents of the facade is an archway that gives accommodation to a small bell. Further down on each rainscreen are symmetrically arranged two pinnacles very similar to those that in Romanesque-Gothic churches were placed on the edges of less ornate parts to give them greater momentum: they depict two stylized trees. Adjacent to the church was the old cemetery.
