Nostra Signora di Castro, in Oschiri a small but really original cathedral

Small but original, the ex cathedral of Nostra Signora di Castro (near Oschiri) is surely worth a visit. Constructed in the XII century, in the period of the Giudicato of Torres Costantino II, with red and brown trachyte blocks, on the top of a hill that looks over the Coghinas lake, this church has had an important role until 1503, when the Pope Giulio II suppressed the diocese of Castro: indeed it was raised to the rank of cathedral. Even if it underwent numerous reconstruction works, it has a print of the Romanesque style of the Lombard school. All around there are some “cumbessias”, small houses constructed in order to receive the pilgrims.

In Oschiri is worth a visit the small church of San Demetrio, in Romanesque style, constructed in the XII century and adapted today as chapel of the cemetery.

In Tula you can admire the church of Santa Maria di Coros, constructed in the XII century. Of the Romanesque style it conserves only a flank, because of the many reconstruction that followed in the centuries, however the red and gray trachyt blocks used to build it, confer a harmonious aspect from the architectonic point of view.

In the territory of Benetutti, close to the thermal baths Aurora, there is the Romanesque church of San Saturnino, that gives the name to the locality. He was constructed in the XII on what remained of a nuragh.

At the entrance of Bultèi you will find the church of Nostra Signora di Mesumundu (XII century). Inside of it, the original holy water stoup in stone and two wooden statues, one of the XVI century and the other of the XVII. The bell instead, is of the XIII century.