Santa Maria di Bonu Ighinu
The country church of Santa Maria di Bonu Ighinu (ital .: Santuario di Nostra Signora di Bonu Ighinu ) is located in the valley of Bonu Ighinu, the north, the small rural community of Mara , east of the road to Monteleone Rocca Doria , in the province of Sassari in Sardinia opens .
Santa Maria di Bonu Ighinu stands lonely on a mountain on an elevated step. Before the founding of Mara ( pre-Indo-European word for swamp) it belonged to the medieval village Pauli (Sardinian word for swamp ). The facade from 1797 is one of the amazing testimonies of late Sardinian architecture. The architectural styles were mixed here with a woodcut-like stone processing to an independent antique Catalan decoration style. The interpretation of Rococo motifs in the topped gable line, which has a Far Eastern appearance and which gave the church the popular name Nostra Signora di Bombey, is unique .
The main nave is almost entirely draped with votive panels. It is spanned by a large barrel vault with belt arches. However, there are no side chapels between the buttresses, but pilgrims' apartments accessible from the outside. The ensemble consists of the small forecourt, the outside staircase and the surrounding pilgrims' apartments.
The caves , to which the field name good neighbor (sard. Bonu ighinu) owes its name in prehistoric research ( Bono Ighinu culture ), are located about one kilometer east of the church.
In the triangle of villages Mara - Padria - Pozzomaggiore some churches are remarkable. Sant'Agostino (from 1790) in Pozzomaggiore, whose gable reminds of San Sebastiano in Sorradile, was probably built by the same masters as the church of Bonu Ighinu. The parish church of San Giorgio (from 1570) in the same place and the parish church of Santa Giulia in Padria (from 1520), on the other hand, were built according to the basic scheme of the Sardinian-Catalan churches in northern Sardinia.
literature
- Vico Mossa: Dal Gotico al Barocco in Sardegna. Delfino, Sassari 1982.
- TK Kirova, A. Tramontin, A. Bergamini: Architetture della Religosità popolare nella Sardegna del XVII secolo. In: Tatiana K. Kirova (ed.): Arte e cultura del '600 e del' 700 in Sardegna. Edizioni Sientifiche Ialiane, Napoli 1984, pp. 267-280.
- David Trump : Nuraghe Noeddos and the Bonu Ighinu Valley. Excavation and Survey in Sardinia. Oxbow Books, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-946897-20-4 .
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Coordinates: 40 ° 26 '49.9 " N , 8 ° 38' 38.7" E