Sardinia trip, March 2019
We spent three weeks in Sardinia in August 2018 as a family vacation, with not as much time as would have been needed to really explore this wonderful island from a photographic viewpoint.
Thus, after I retired a few months thereafter, I decided to go back on my own for another couple of weeks, and settled for end of March 2019. I rented a house on the western coast of the island, with people who also owned an apartment near the eastern coast, and were willing to include use of it in the rental. That gave me bases on both sides of the island, which was ideal, as the road situation on the mountainous, eastern side of Sardinia is quite bad, and it takes ages to go to one place to another.
As usual, I will caption in bold type below these introductory paragraphs whenever needed.
This is the church of Nostra Signora di Talia, in the town of Olmedo. We have more written documentation for this one than for most others, and we know it was built between 1100 and 1125, most likely by master masons from Tuscany and Lombardy, judging by the architectural style and decoration.
It is a lovely old little Romanesque church built with red sandstone on a basilica-type plan with three naves, to accommodate an already sizeable congregation.
Sardinia trip, March 2019
We spent three weeks in Sardinia in August 2018 as a family vacation, with not as much time as would have been needed to really explore this wonderful island from a photographic viewpoint.
Thus, after I retired a few months thereafter, I decided to go back on my own for another couple of weeks, and settled for end of March 2019. I rented a house on the western coast of the island, with people who also owned an apartment near the eastern coast, and were willing to include use of it in the rental. That gave me bases on both sides of the island, which was ideal, as the road situation on the mountainous, eastern side of Sardinia is quite bad, and it takes ages to go to one place to another.
As usual, I will caption in bold type below these introductory paragraphs whenever needed.
This is the church of Nostra Signora di Talia, in the town of Olmedo. We have more written documentation for this one than for most others, and we know it was built between 1100 and 1125, most likely by master masons from Tuscany and Lombardy, judging by the architectural style and decoration.
It is a lovely old little Romanesque church built with red sandstone on a basilica-type plan with three naves, to accommodate an already sizeable congregation.