The little Church of Due Strade
Consecrated in 1933 to the Holy Infant of Prague, it is placed in the centre of the district Due Strade (Two Streets) in an elevated position: in the apse there are some paintings by Giuseppe Armocida.
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Consecrated in 1933 to the Holy Infant of Prague, it is placed in the centre of the district Due Strade (Two Streets) in an elevated position: in the apse there are some paintings by Giuseppe Armocida.
About ten years after the occupation by Sardinian-Piedmontese army, which sanctioned the archipelago’s transition to the Kingdom of Sardinia (1767), almost the entire population had moved to the coast, in particular around Cala Gavetta that became the core of the economy connected to the sea. The Trinita Church was too far away, so a new …
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