The villa of Pittinuri (toponym attested with long series of variants) is attested in medieval documentation from the mid-14th century.
Its importance lay in being close to a natural harbor, recognized as strategic, both in Judicial times and later during the Catalan-Aragonese and Spanish occupation of Sardinia.
The value of the site appears to be further supported by the church’s aggregation to a priory of Hierosolymitan monks (an event that may have resulted in its modest Gothic-inspired architectural embellishment that no longer exists).
The same is true in relation to the vicissitudes of the tuna fishery, which, in the 17th century, increased the importance of the fiefdom of the Zatrillas counts.
The present facies of the building features an 18th-century facade with a gabled crowning and small bell gable in axis with the portal.
The interior is modulated by the opening of two side altars about halfway down the body of the building.
Although no obvious traces of the medieval period remain, the removal of plasterwork has brought to light the wall texture, also enhancing the simple barrel vaults.
Of note are some canvases kept in the sacristy and the 18th-century statue of the titular saint, kept in a niche in the center of the chancel.
The feast, organized as a pilgrimage on foot from the basilica in Cuglieri, is celebrated there on the second Sunday in May.
In the area facing the church is positioned a series of eye-cavity bethyls from the tomb of giants in Oraggiana.
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