Chiesa Parrocchiale San Sebastiano (Church of St Sebastian)

The church is dedicated to St Sebastian, a Roman soldier and a martyr killed for having defended his own Christian faith.

When you look at it from the outside, the church looks surmounted by a bell gable, a recurring structural feature in Sardinian churches, and covered in square ashlars that add an aura of elegant gravitas to the whole thing.

The church, which began to be built in the 1680s, still owns some remarkable church furnishings, such as a stoup and a high altar carved by the Cagliari-born marble worker Giovanni Battista Spazzi.

As you enter, just stop and look at the two antependia inlaid in the pietra dura technique, and get ready to be amazed at the sophisticated ability of artist Pietro Pozzu who managed to preserve the typical gracefulness of the vegetal world even in the rigidity of the marble. Both carved in 1725, they have two medallions at the centre, one dedicated to St Sebastian and one to the Virgin.

Most remarkable is the wooden pulpit in the aisle, carved by the Cagliari-born artist Battista Medinas in 1788.