Thiesi

Thiesi
Country	Italy
region	Sardinia
province	Sassari  (SS)
Local name	Tièsi
Coordinates	40 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 31 '32 "  N , 8 ° 43' 3"  E
height	461  m slm
surface	63.83 km²
Residents	2,866 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	45 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	07047
prefix	079
ISTAT number	090071
Popular name	Thìesini or Tiesini
Patron saint	Santa Vittoria
Website	Thiesi

Thiesi is an Italian municipality in the province of Sassari in Sardinia with 2866 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). The place is in the Meilogu on a limestone plateau not far from the expressway "Carlo Felice" SS131 .

Attractions

The Santa Vittoria Church

The Catalan- Sardinian parish church of Santa Vittoria was built around 1500. Its gray main portal, with the protruding sloping antecedents, which dispenses with any three-dimensional contour, has a two-dimensional order with a large rose window . The architrave , over which an arched field lies, is based on much older early Romanesque reliefs. The nearby parish churches in Cheremule , Cossoine and Semestene were built according to their model .

• Front'e Mola (also Su Saucci) is a protonuraghe . It is located high above Lake Bidighinzu in the corridor Mesu 'e Roccas (between the rocks) on the left of the road to Ittiri .
• Mandra Antine , Domus de Janas at the place
• The nearby church of San Pietro di Sorres is also worth seeing .

Web links

Commons : Thiesi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.