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The territory of Tissi, crossed by numerous watercourses, including the Riu Mannu, is rich in archaeological documentation starting from prehistoric times. The cult of Saint Victoria and Saint Anastasia dates back to Byzantine times.
The title “sanctae Anastasie de Tissi” is attested for the first time in 1175, in a document that specifies that it belongs to the Vallombrosian abbey of San Michele di Plaiano. The church was built in the middle of the 12th century.
The original plan, in limestone ashlars, was a mononave with an S/E apse. In the 17th century, the flanks were partially demolished to open a series of seventeenth-century chapels and to allow the entrance to the sacristy, which connects with the oratory of the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross.
Only the façade of the Romanesque church remains almost intact, marked in three mirrors by two pilasters that start from the ground and reach the upper part, where there are seven arches on peducci. Two other, thinner pilasters rise to the top, also connected by arches parallel to the sloping ones. In the two side mirrors, two crosses are inlaid in dark volcanic stone, which stand out from the light background. At the center of the façade, the portal, modified in the 17th century, opens, above which a window, now walled up, had to open.
History of studies
Historiography is based on the entry 'Tissi' edited by Vittorio Angius for the Casalis' Dictionary '(1850). In the following century, Ginevra Zanetti's contributions to the Vallombrosani in Sardinia (1968) and the files by Renata Serra (1989) and Roberto Coroneo (1993) in their respective volumes on Romanesque architecture in Sardinia stand out.
Bibliography
V. Angius, “Tissi”, in G. Casalis, Historical, Statistical and Commercial Geographical Dictionary of the States by H.M. the King of Sardinia, XX, Turin, G. Maspero, 1850, p. 983;
G. Zanetti, The Vallombrosani in Sardinia, Sassari, 1968, p. 22;
R. Serra, Sardinia, series “Romanesque Italy”, Milan, 1989, pp. 397-398; R. Coroneo, Romanesque Architecture from the mid-thousand to the early '300. Nuoro, Ilisso, 1993, sheet 89;
R. Coroneo, Romanesque Churches of Sardinia. Tourist-cultural itineraries, Cagliari, AV, 2005, p. 28.
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Religious architecture
Province: Sassari
Common: Tissi
Macro Territorial Area: Nord Sardegna
POSTAL CODE: 07040
Address: via Frà Damiano Pinna, s.n.c.
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