Building sights in Sardinia
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Museo Diocesano d'Arte Sacra
In the grand spaces that were once the Oratorio del Rosario is the cathedral museum. It houses a good collection of religious art including silverware, statuary, paintings and wood carving. A ghoulish touch is the reliquary of what is claimed to be one of the innocenti (newborn babies slaughtered by Herod in his search for the Christ child). The tiny skull is chilling, but apparently it appealed to Alghero artist Francesco Pinna, who received it from a Roman cardinal in the 16th century. The low, flat arch of the former chapel is clearly inspired by the Catalan Gothic style.
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Cattedrale di Santa Maria
Overlooking Piazza Duomo, the oversized Cattedrale di Santa Maria is an odd mishmash of Moorish, baroque, Renaissance and other influences. Of greater interest is the campanile around the back, a fine example of Catalan-Gothic architecture.
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Chiesa di San Michele
Along Via Carlo Alberto is a church whose main feature is its majolica dome, typical of churches in Valencia, another former Catalan territory. The present tiles were laid in the 1960s, but this doesn't detract from the visual pleasure.
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Chiesa di San Francesco
On the old town’s main street, the Chiesa di San Francesco hides some beautiful 14th-century cloisters behind an austere stone facade.
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