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During our 1991 trip to Sardinia, our hotel restaurant was booked solid for one day for a wedding of extreme local note. In order to make the Americanos disappear for the day, the hotel manager loaned us his car and the chef packed us up a picnic lunch of monumental proportions. We drove up to Olbia and from there across to the northwest coast to the city of Sassari. We then followed the coast south to Bossa and there crossed back east to Nuoro. From Nuoro north to Sinascola and then back to Posada. The most interesting site encountered was on the first leg of the journey about 16 kilometers before Sassari. There on the Codrongianos Plain visible from quite a distance was a most unique Romanesque church.

 

 

The Basilica della SS Trinità di Saccargia was constructed around 1117 AD by the Camaldolensi monks. The construction used alternating layers of limestone and basalt giving it a unique appearance.

 

 

The bell tower is 41 meters high. The front of the basilica is only 10 meters wide with a depth of 41 meters.

The ornate detailing is well preserved.

 

 

 

Here you can readily see the contrasting texture of the two materials from which the facade of the basilica is built.

 

 

 

While the main basilica is well preserved, some of the accompanying buildings lie in ruins.

 

 

 

Quite possibly the quarry source for some of the building's components.

 

 

 

A graveyard area behind the basilica. Probably the final resting place of some of the designers.

 


 

 

Some of the photo pages have Sardinian MIDI music clips attached. This music is used with the generous permission of the composer Mr. Carlo Maccioni of Cagliari, Sardinia.  Carlo has an award-winning web site with pictures and information about his native Sardinia. To access his web site, click anywhere on this note. My thanks to him for allowing me the use of the MIDI clips.

 

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