San Pietro di Sorres
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San Pietro di Sorres is a Benedictine monastery above the village of Borutta near Thiesi in the province of Sassari in Sardinia . The monastery and its church in the Pisan late Romanesque style are visible from afar on a hilltop in the middle of the hills of Meilogu .
church
A good 100 years later, the builders raised the white limestone walls of a fragmentary nave from the 11th century with black and white fields in the typical Tuscan style made of basalt and limestone. The Moorish contribution to the architecture of the time becomes tangible in the two-tone color in the incrustations and horseshoe arches of the twin window. The similarity of the two-tone presentation with Arab-influenced churches in Burgundy (such as the Ste-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay cathedral ) is palpable, but there is no evidence of any influence from Burgundians present in Sardinia. Apart from the facade, the outer walls were smooth and required a plain white finish up to a uniform height. The interplay of lime blocks and black trachyte therefore only begins above.
The entrance side on the west facade is divided into blind arcade bands, the arch fields of which contain panes and rhombuses. The east facade is dominated by the apse erected in the second construction phase . The ancient apse eaves, the design elements of which recur on the front, is Pisan. The round arch frieze that surrounds the walls of the aisles and the apse is unusual. If you compare the front of San Pietro with that of contemporary Tuscan churches, the pent roofs of the aisles are striking. This contour has an old tradition in Sardinia. The building history is somewhat reminiscent of that of San Pietro di Simbranos .
It is unclear what prompted the transition to the vault in the interior. Perhaps the architect was impressed by the vaults of San Nicola di Silanos near Sedini , which is considered a model. The furnishings include a Gothic pulpit , a Romanesque altar , a Cistercian sarcophagus from the 11th century and a choir screen once with buten inlay .
monastery
The monastery of the Benedictine Order was founded in 1955 by Giovanni Paolo Gibertini with six other confreres.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 31 ′ 13.2 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 56.3" E