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).
I have been standing here for a thousand years...
In the small town of Sadali, the Sant’ Elena church was built in the 900s on a Byzantine, very simple, floor plan. Even though the walls are not tall and the church was not vaulted, but simply roofed with timber and fired clay roofing tiles, the sides are supported by the massive buttresses you can see in the photo: that tells a lot about how unsure of the general solidity of the building the builders were.
Entirely devoid of ornamentation, this humble church was built with certainly a lot of fervor, and an equal lack of financial means. The small to medium apparel stones are mostly mediocre, although it is obvious they did their best to square and polish them, but they were not very skilled at it. And they were procured locally.
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).
I have been standing here for a thousand years...
In the small town of Sadali, the Sant’ Elena church was built in the 900s on a Byzantine, very simple, floor plan. Even though the walls are not tall and the church was not vaulted, but simply roofed with timber and fired clay roofing tiles, the sides are supported by the massive buttresses you can see in the photo: that tells a lot about how unsure of the general solidity of the building the builders were.
Entirely devoid of ornamentation, this humble church was built with certainly a lot of fervor, and an equal lack of financial means. The small to medium apparel stones are mostly mediocre, although it is obvious they did their best to square and polish them, but they were not very skilled at it. And they were procured locally.