San Nicola di Silanis

You reach it by walking. Twenty minutes along a path in the Silanis Valley, with the limestone hills of Sedini closing the horizon. Then the church appears. San Nicola di Silanis has been here since the 12th century. Essential. Still. The first document mentions it when Furatu de Gitil and Susanna de Lacon Zorila donated it to the Abbey of Montecassino. On the façade, facing east, a funerary inscription from the second half of the 12th century marks the tomb of Iohannes Thurio and Elenae de Kerki. A convent soon rose around it, now reduced to stone remains. The surrounding land was cultivated, families lived in these spaces. During religious feasts, the Corone di giustizia were held here, assemblies where disputes and matters between lay people and monks were settled. Today, what remains is the right perimeter wall, the nave, the apse. Restored in 2019, San Nicola does not seek attention. It stands.