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 (11.60 x 7.30 m), make it one of the smallest two-aisled Romanesque churches on the island.
The front elevation is bipartite with a central pilaster, two corner pilasters and a high scarp plinth, with the two portals surmounted by over-carved 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 two aisles are divided by 3 arches resting on two octagonal-section pillars (looks Gothic), provided with capitals and prismatic plinths.
The wooden roof is double-pitched in the main aisle and single-pitched in the side aisle.
There are some valuable wooden statues, including one of St. Michael from the 17th century.
