{"id":32826,"date":"2023-12-19T17:06:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/church-of-san-nicola-di-quirra\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:06:48","slug":"church-of-san-nicola-di-quirra","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/church-of-san-nicola-di-quirra\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of San Nicola di Quirra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Church of San Nicola di Quirra<\/strong> can be found in <strong>Villaputzu and <\/strong>stands near the <strong>ruins of the giudicale castle of Quirra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Together with the church of San Gavino di Lorzia in Bono<\/strong>, it is something <strong>unique on the island<\/strong>. Indeed, it was <strong>built entirely of terracotta bricks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Most likely, the building material was extracted and worked <em>on site<\/em>, as remains of a <strong>quarry <\/strong>and the<strong> baking kiln<\/strong> were found.<\/p>\n<p>The structure has a <strong>single nave<\/strong>, with wooden ceiling inside and dates to <strong>the fourth quarter of the XII century<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Its dimensions, layout and facades were designed following very precise geometrical diagrams and measurement details, like the <strong>canna toscana (ancient measurement unit) <\/strong>and<strong> squaring<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In order to overcome the height difference due to the steep terrain sloping eastwards, the church was configured on an <strong>escarpment<\/strong> only on the apse side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Externally,<\/strong> the building has <strong>arches<\/strong> made up of semi-circular ferule parts, stemming from small brackets with carved geometrical decoration.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>large bell gable with ogival light<\/strong> was erected on the facade.<\/p>\n<p>The church stands <strong>on the trunk road 125<\/strong> a few kilometres from the centre of Villaputzu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":27053,"template":"","tipologia":[979,981,1008],"categoria":[1023],"tematica":[1030],"class_list":["post-32826","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-chiesa-en","tipologia-chiesa-campestre-en","tipologia-chiesa-romanica-en","categoria-architectural-asset","tematica-architecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Church of San Nicola di Quirra - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/church-of-san-nicola-di-quirra\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Church of San Nicola di Quirra - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Church of San Nicola di Quirra can be found in Villaputzu and stands near the ruins of the giudicale castle of Quirra. 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