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The territory of Ittiri offers a landscape that alternates rolling hills with rugged reliefs of sedimentary rock. The church of Our Lady of Coros is located on a rural site, annexed to a Cistercian monastery dependent on the nearby Abbey of Our Lady of Paulis, in the countryside between Ittyri and Uri.
There is no documentary evidence of the founding of the Cistercian monastery, perhaps the seat of a priory, nor of the construction of the church, which hypothetically can be ascribed to the 13th century.
Over the centuries, the church underwent heavy interventions, the last of which was between 1981 and 1987, when it was incorporated by sixteenth-eighteenth-century structures. The façade was demolished to lengthen the room.
Of the medieval structure, only part of the sides, made of calcareous ashlars, and the ogival barrel roof crossed by an undercrow that is set on two undecorated shelves, remain. In the modern restoration, the apse was rebuilt based on the foundations of the original.
History of studies
The studies on the abbey of Our Lady of Coros are intertwined with those on the presence of Cistercian monks on the island: the entry “Iteri-Cannedu” by Vittorio Angius, in the “Dictionary” by Goffredo Casalis (1841), followed by the voice “Sassari” always by the same author, but later by a few years (1849). After World War I, Raffaello Delogu's (1948) work on Cistercian architecture in Sardinia came out, followed in 1976 by Ginevra Zanetti. The 1990 proceedings of the conference on the Cistercians in Sardinia held in Silanus in 1987: these include the contributions of Maria Cristina Cannas and Alma Casula. Finally, see Roberto Coroneo's profile (1993) in the volume on Romanesque architecture in Sardinia.
Bibliography
V. Angius, “Iteri-Cannedu”, in G. Casalis, Historical-Statistical-Commercial Geographical Dictionary of the States by H.M. the King of Sardinia, VIII, Turin, G. Maspero, 1841, pp. 562-568;
V. Angius, “Sassari”, in G. Casalis, Historical, Statistical and Commercial Geographical Dictionary of the States by H.M. the King of Sardinia, XIX, Turin, G. Maspero, 1849, pp. 71-375; R. Delogu, “Cistercian Architectures of Sardinia”, in G. Sardi, VIII, 1948, pp. 99-131; R. Delogu, Architecture of the Middle Ages in Sardinia, Rome, The State Library, 1953, pp. 120-121;
G. Zanetti, “The Cistercians in Sardinia, The Abbeys of S. Maria di Corte, of Paulis and of Coros”, in the Sardinian Historical Archive of Sassari, II, 1976, pp. 20-21;
R. Serra, Sardinia, series “Romanesque Italy”, Milan, Jaca Book, 1989, pp. 418-419; M.C. Cannas, “Cistercian decorations in the Cistercian churches of Sardinia”, in I in Sardinia. Aspects and problems of a Benedictine monastic Order in medieval Sardinia, edited by G. Spiga, Nuoro, Provincial Administration of Nuoro, 1990, pp. 245-277;
A. Casula, “Testimonies of Cistercian Architecture in Northern Sardinia”, in The Cistercians in Sardinia. Aspects and problems of a Benedictine monastic Order in medieval Sardinia, edited by G. Spiga, Nuoro, Provincial Administration of Nuoro, 1990, pp. 223-243;
R. Coroneo, Romanesque Architecture from the Mid Thousand to the Early '300, series “History of Art in Sardinia”, Nuoro, Ilisso, 1993, sch. 60; Roberto Coroneo, Romanesque Churches of Sardinia. Tourist-cultural itineraries, Cagliari, 2005, p. 28.
Content type:
Religious architecture
Province: Sassari
Common: Ittiri
Macro Territorial Area: Northern Sardinia
POSTAL CODE: 07044
Address: strada vicinale di Coros, s.n.c. - località Nostra Signora di Coros
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