Sardinia, Summer 2018
After Puglia and Basilicata in 2017, we went to Sardinia during the Summer of 2018. Even though we spent three weeks there, we had family with us most of the time, therefore photographic activity was sometimes a bit curbed —to the point that I decided to return on my own in March–April 2019, after my retirement, to concentrate on photography (those pictures will be uploaded later).
This is the lovely Byzantine-early Romanesque rural church of Santa Sabina, which appeared in the background of the nuraghe photo I uploaded yesterday.
This completely atypical church is difficult to date. It obviously includes elements from several periods, and was inspired both by Byzantine and Romanesque architecture. There seems to be a consensus to date its oldest parts to the 10th century, and the “not so old” ones to the 11th, which is still pretty old.
It is a lovely little squat structure, once again in the middle of nowhere... Some people say there once was a Benedictine house, but no trace of it was ever found by archæologists.
Sardinia, Summer 2018
After Puglia and Basilicata in 2017, we went to Sardinia during the Summer of 2018. Even though we spent three weeks there, we had family with us most of the time, therefore photographic activity was sometimes a bit curbed —to the point that I decided to return on my own in March–April 2019, after my retirement, to concentrate on photography (those pictures will be uploaded later).
This is the lovely Byzantine-early Romanesque rural church of Santa Sabina, which appeared in the background of the nuraghe photo I uploaded yesterday.
This completely atypical church is difficult to date. It obviously includes elements from several periods, and was inspired both by Byzantine and Romanesque architecture. There seems to be a consensus to date its oldest parts to the 10th century, and the “not so old” ones to the 11th, which is still pretty old.
It is a lovely little squat structure, once again in the middle of nowhere... Some people say there once was a Benedictine house, but no trace of it was ever found by archæologists.