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Codrongianos - Basilica di Saccargia

Codrongianos - Basilica di Saccargia
The "Basilica della Santissima Trinità di Saccargia" is probably the most important and renowned Romanesque church in the island of Sardinia.

The construction was commissioned by the "giudice" of Torres, a powerful judge. The church was completed and got consecrated in 1116. It was built, over the ruins of a pre-existing monastery, on the floorplan of a "Tau Cross" just like the neighbouring "San Michele di Salvenero".

The porch is some decades younger (1180/1200). It has some great capitals, that may have been carved by masters from Pisa or Lucca.

Legends tell, that the name "Saccargia" is connected to "sa acca argia" - "speckled cow", as a cow was found here praying on its knees. Here are the cows.

An abbey was founded by Camaldolese monks. The order had been founded about 100 years earlier by Saint Romuald in Camaldoli (Tuscany).

The church was abandoned in the 16th century, the monastery fell in ruins and only some walls and foundations can be seen. The church was restored and reopened in the 20th century.

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 Martin M. Miles
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Well, all cows (as well as horses, goats, bantams etc...) were catholic after human- (and animal-) kind got saved by the missionaries from the evil heathenism. Unfortunately after 1517 a great lot turned their back to catholicism. Some became protestant, some followed pietistic preachers. I heard that just recently that some joined the Pastafarians and since then wear colanders as headgear..
8 years ago.

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