The Ancient Church of the Holy Trinity (in Gallurese Ghjesgia’Eccia) is the most interesting building that stands in the center of the village, in Piazza IV Novembre. According to local tradition, this church was allegedly built at the beginning of the 18th century by a group of outcasts
Corsicans and local bandits, in order to enjoy the right of asylum and extraterritoriality then recognized in places of worship. The site where it was built, however, is said to have been chosen by divine will: according to legend, in fact, at that spot (at the time called Agultu), the chariot on which the Corsican statue was transported (previously stolen by outlaws from a medieval church near Bonifacio) stopped, and from there the oxen would never move again. In 1813 it was established as a rural parish, dependent on the rectory of Aggius, and in 1905 it obtained the decree of autonomous parish. Some of the works inside are the shrine with the Dormant Assumption; the beautiful oil-on-board painting of the Crucifixion by Hans Jordaens; an ancient painting of the Virgin Queen of Angels; an ancient Crucifix, the protagonist of the traditional Sardinian rite of Iscravamentu; and a stoup from 1877. Above the altar stands, humble and majestic, the Holy Trinity.
