The church of St. Anastasia
The present arrangement is due to a 17th-century remodeling that distorted its floor plan: in fact, three chapels on each side enclosed between strong exterior buttresses were opened there.
It is preserved, behind the altar backdrop, the apse.
The façade is framed by wide corner pilasters, which are welded to the scarp plinth and the small arches of the slopes, and is tripartite by pilasters that divide it into three mirrors: a horizontal arching divides it into two sectors. Both the lower pilasters
that the upper ones (aligned, but thinner) end at the impost of the bows.
In the side mirrors a dark trachyte cross is inlaid within a circular limestone dowel. The portal, architraved, is surmounted by a round arch; in the lunette, which is semicircular, sloping molded cornices were inserted in the 17th century to mark a tympanum.
The opening of the oculi in the upper side mirrors is also ascribed to the same period. Along the sides, at the same height as the horizontal arching, runs a theory of small arches on shelled, bullnose or stepped corbels.
The facing, observable only in the upper section due to later interventions, is interspersed with narrow, flat pilasters and framed between wide corner pilasters.
The Oratory of the Holy Cross
It is located next to the bell tower of the parish church of St. Anastasia, which incorporates its structures. Of the Romanesque factory, the southern flank and the rear projection concluded by sloping roofs with round arches put in place irregularly are visible. Similar bows also run along the flank terminal, on wide, flat, stepped or elongated leafy corbels. It is ascribed, on the basis of stylistic observation, and particularly for the ornamentation of the corbels, to the second half of the 12th century.
Church of Saint Victoria
It originally had a longitudinal layout with a single hall.
It was rebuilt in the 17th century, and the ashlars of the pre-existing Romanesque building were reused to build external buttresses: two side chapels were also added in the chancel, which was quadrangular, and it was covered with a barrel vault traversed by sub-arches. The bell gable tower is also ascribed to this period.
Only the facade is preserved of the Romanesque church, built with sharp-cut limestone blocks that make regular, sometimes non-uniform rows. It appears devoid of corner pilasters: in the corners it turns up a simple molded cornice on which rests the first of the thin double ferrule arches: there are nine of them and they make a horizontal arching that separates the smooth, unterminated part above.
One of the small arches is decorated with engraved geometric motifs; human protomes, bucrania, water leaf, and ram protome are carved in the corbels, lower with spindle frieze. The portal is architraved with a semicircular lunette: trachyte ashlars alternating with limestone can be discerned in the arch, in two-tone.
For the chronology of the Romanesque building, comparisons on a stylistic basis would lead to its being ascribed to the mid-12th century (particularly because of the facade lacking corner pilasters and the elongation of the pier in the side arches): moreover, it was noted that these stylistic features were typical of Romanesque architecture in Corsica aspects for which it is assumed that the building was executed by workers of Corsican training.
Church of St. Anastasia
Via Roma 2
The Oratory of Holy Cross
Via Roma 7
Church of Santa Vittoria
Via Roma 85
