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.<\/p>\n
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.
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Inside, the two aisles are divided by 3 arches resting on two octagonal-section pillars (looks Gothic), provided with capitals and prismatic plinths.
\nThe wooden roof is double-pitched in the main aisle and single-pitched in the side aisle.
\nThere are some valuable wooden statues, including one of St. Michael from the 17th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":81864,"template":"","meta":{"COMUNE":[],"note":[],"indirizzo":[],"accessibilita_mezzi":[],"coordinates":[],"images":[],"adesioni":[],"footnotes":""},"monumento_tipologia":[679,691],"accessibilita":[707],"accessibilita_mezzi":[],"class_list":["post-90128","monumento","type-monumento","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","monumento_tipologia-chiesa-en","monumento_tipologia-religione-e-culto-en","accessibilita-accessibilita-con-accompagnatore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/90128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/monumento"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/90128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109635,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/90128\/revisions\/109635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"monumento_tipologia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumento_tipologia?post=90128"},{"taxonomy":"accessibilita","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibilita?post=90128"},{"taxonomy":"accessibilita_mezzi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibilita_mezzi?post=90128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}