Porto Torres, the basilica of San Gavino is falling apart

For too many years there has been no trace of any recovery and restructuring work on the largest Romanesque church in Sardinia , which continues to fall apart.

The current state of the external walls of the basilica of San Gavino , the majestic building that dominates the Monte Agellu district in Porto Torres , is worrying.

The millenary monument continues to crumble , detachments of small parts and larger pieces affecting the facade in particular, an unstoppable degradation denounced several times by the epigraphist Giuseppe Piras, president of the San Gavino basilica study center.

Always attentive observer of the risks that the monument runs, in particular that of definitively losing the external decorations, the plasticity of the bas-reliefs placed on the sides of the individual entrances of the church, in which it is necessary to act immediately before even making any restoration intervention impossible.

Atmospheric agents torment some parts now weakened by wind and rain , points also located inside the church which requires constant monitoring if you don't want to lose the symbol and image of the medieval city of Torres.