Built on a small rise on the outskirts of the town, St. Michael the Archangel is a delightful Romanesque church dated to the second half of the 13th century. It is built with a 2-aisle plan (there are only a dozen in Sardinia) and a single semicircular apse in the main nave. Its small size (m 11.60 x m 7.30), make it one of the smallest two-aisled Romanesque churches on the island. The front elevation is bipartite with a central pilaster, two angular pilasters, and a high scarp plinth, with the two portals surmounted by overlapping discharge arches resting on now-worn corbels. Of particular interest is the sculptural cycle created in the lintel of the left portal. It is the relief representation of 5 mysterious anthropomorphic figures, set within 4 rectangular niches subdivided and framed by vertical bands with aligned diamond decorations. The presence among them of a singular “upside down” makes the work unique in the medieval Sardinian sculptural scene. Inside, the 2 naves are divided by 3 arches resting on two octagonal-section pillars (looks Gothic), provided with capitals and prismatic bases. The wooden roof is double-pitched in the main nave and single-pitched in the side aisle. There are some valuable wooden statues, including one of St. Michael from the 17th century.
