The church of San Giorgio is an unexpected treasure chest on the edge of the town of Decimoputzu. The first stage of its construction dates to the VI century A.D., when a small church with aspe was built and whose remains are still visible inside the more recent building. In order to decorate the area of worship, the unusual method of paving it with fragments of Roman mosaic recovered from a building dating to at least 200 years earlier, was used. The Byzantine tomb outside the church’s eastern wall also dates to that period but nowadays isn’t very visible and is inaccessible. Around the XI century A.D., the Vittorini monks of Marseilles radically transformed the church. The current day building owes its eclectic appearance to the last transformation in the XVI century A.D., when the retablo (altarpiece) preserved inside was also created. Architectural fragments from the Medieval period are inserted into the side wall of the nearby church of Santa Maria delle Grazie.
The church of San Michele di Plaiano can be found in the countryside near Sassari. In 1082, the land around the current-day church was…
