The town’s main church, dedicated to St. Pontian, is located in central Rome Square, was finished in November 1938 and consecrated a year later, on November 18, 1939. Rationalist architecture with straight, simple lines and the abolition of all decoration embodied the autarkic ideal of the Fascist regime, together reinterpreting the Romanesque style. It has a rectangular facade with a small porticoed atrium made of Teulada granite and a trachyte upper part enriched by a rose window closed by a stained-glass window with the figures of St. Barbara and St. Pontian. Flanking it on the left is the bell tower with a square plan and a height of 44.70 m; divided into 5 floors, it is clad in red trachyte with the end crowned by a red brick spire. On the ground floor is the crypt that once housed Gavino Tilocca’s statue of St. Barbara and the baptismal font.
