Tailer's Family - journeying!
Project: Sardinia - Alghero
The Cathedral of St. Mary The interior is a bit of a hodgepodge: the alternating pillars and columns on either side of the lofty nave survive from the original construction, while the impressive dome and creamy marble central altar date from the eighteenth century, and the lateral chapels are predominantly Neoclassical or Baroque. Behind the altar, an ambulatory said to derive architecturally from the Islamic mosque of the old Moorish city (and recalling similar designs in cathedrals at Salamanca and Segovia) gives onto five radiating chapels, also part of the original building. The left transept holds the well-executed marble funerary monument of the Savoy Duke of Monferrato, brother of King Carlo Felice, dated 1799. Elsewhere the flaking walls show the need of a long overdue restoration.
This restoration was being undergone when I was there so it was difficult to try to walk around scaffolding!
Project: Sardinia - Alghero
The Cathedral of St. Mary The interior is a bit of a hodgepodge: the alternating pillars and columns on either side of the lofty nave survive from the original construction, while the impressive dome and creamy marble central altar date from the eighteenth century, and the lateral chapels are predominantly Neoclassical or Baroque. Behind the altar, an ambulatory said to derive architecturally from the Islamic mosque of the old Moorish city (and recalling similar designs in cathedrals at Salamanca and Segovia) gives onto five radiating chapels, also part of the original building. The left transept holds the well-executed marble funerary monument of the Savoy Duke of Monferrato, brother of King Carlo Felice, dated 1799. Elsewhere the flaking walls show the need of a long overdue restoration.
This restoration was being undergone when I was there so it was difficult to try to walk around scaffolding!