San Quilico (Montilati)
The Chapel of San Quilico de Montilati is located in the municipality of Figari in the Sartène arrondissement in the Corse-du-Sud department in Corsica . The hamlet of Montilati , north of Figari, can be reached from the D 859.
The unadorned single-nave small chapel (7.45 m long) was built at the end of the 12th century and is possibly a gentlemen's foundation. The 3.1 m wide barrel vault is an architectural rarity among Corsica's Romanesque churches.
The gray walls made of granite blocks are bare and windowless. The roof is covered with original flat granite shingles (so-called teghie), between which all kinds of plants grow out. Only the apse has a loop-hole-like window in the middle, which hardly illuminates the interior. The high, narrow portal consists only of a semicircular arch without a lintel or arched door field. The simple architecture continues in a circumferential strip cornice along the edge of the roof.
In the north of Corsica there is another chapel dedicated to San Quilico (Corsican Quiliciu ). San Quilico de Cambia dates back to the 13th century and is located in Cambia in Castagniccia in the Haute-Corse department .
See also
literature
- Almut Rother and Frank Rother: Corsica. Art travel guide. Nature and culture on the island of beauty. DuMont Art Guide, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1186-9 .
- Stéphanie Vinet (Ed.): Corse. Le Guide Verte, Michelin Cartes et Guides, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-06-711751-3 , p. 315.
Web links
- Curiosités image of the apse
- Tout sur Google Earth satellite image
Coordinates: 41 ° 30 ′ 55 " N , 9 ° 9 ′ 41" E