DESCRIZIONE:
Nell’area di San Vero Congius, un villaggio trasferito nel 1917-1924 a causa delle piene del fiume Tirso, si trova la chiesa di San Teodoro e le rovine delle chiese di San Nicolò di Mira e dell’Angelo.
Il nome “San Vero” deriva da Sanctus Theodorus (indica la chiesa dedicata a San Teodoro).
Questa zona ha una storia che risale al XII secolo ed è menzionata in un trattato di pace del 1388.
La chiesa di San Teodoro, risalente al VI-VII secolo e IX-X secolo, ha una pianta cruciforme con archi esterni visibili.
Accanto si trova il rudere della chiesa di San Nicola di Mira d’epoca romanica.
NARRAZIONE:In the area of the abandoned village of Congius, relocated between 1917 and 1924 northwards due to the frequent flooding of the Tirso river, the church of San Teodoro and the ruins of the churches of San Nicolò di Mira and dell’Angelo still remain.
The medieval village of Santu Eru de Simmakis, centre of the Parte Simaxis Curatoria of the Giudicato di Arborea, was one of the main administrative, electoral, fiscal and judicial division of the Sardinian medieval kingdoms. It is attested from the 12th century and is mentioned in the Condàghe di Santa Maria di Bonarcado in which a certain Gunnari de Zuri de Santu Eru de Simmakis appears as a witness. It is also mentioned in the peace between Queen Eleonora of Arborea and king John I of Aragon in 1388.
The Byzantine church of San Teodoro, unknown to scholars until the 1960s, underwent heavy renovations in the second half of the same decade that partly compromised its legibility. From a planivolumetric point of view, the monument, datable between the 6th-7th and 9th-10th centuries, has a domed cruciform plan with barrel-vaulted arms. The frontal arches generating the latter project outwards with an eyebrow visible in the heads of each arm. Between the circular dome and the squared tiburium below is a spandrel connection, as in the church of San Giovanni di Sinis, dated after the mid-6th century. Photographs prior to the restoration show that the building was built with different types of masonry devices: ‘opus quadratum’, ‘opus incertum’ and ‘opus latericium’.
The ruin of the parish church dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra -probably dating from the 16th century- presents an original Romanesque layout (late 12th-early 13th century), of which the northern masonry of sandstone, basalt, red and green trachyte ashlars remains.
BIBLIOGRAFIA:Vittorio Angius, G. Casalis, Dizionario geografico storico-statistico-commerciale degli Stati di S.M. il Re di Sardegna, XX, Torino, G. Maspero, 1850.
COMUNE:Simaxis INDIRIZZO:Località San Vero Congius, Strada Provinciale 9 MAPPA:Array