Alghero, the women's group of Orizzonte Comune: «Let's bring the wooden altars home»
Four structures of remarkable value, sent for renovation 45 years ago and never returnedPer restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp
«In 1983, four wooden altars of considerable value, made between 1700 and 1749 by the Masala brothers, two local artists, were dismantled from the church of San Francesco in Alghero. The precious altars were sent for restoration, but were subsequently found to be untraceable».
The Orizzonte Comune women's group recalls the story of the wooden altars from Alghero that ended up in Gallura in "temporary storage" for 45 years now. "Over the years, the story has been forgotten, and no one has ever really known what happened to those objects of great historical and cultural value." More recently, journalists Giampaolo Barceloneta, Gianni Careddu Panu and Antonio Sini have turned the spotlight on the precious artistic heritage that, hopefully, will soon return to the community.
"The silence of a certain old politics is surprising, which instead of praising the operation maintains an incomprehensible and guilty silence", the militants of Orizzonte Comune point out, in the meantime.