The Turris Bisleonis cooperative of Porto Torres , which manages the guided tour service in the Gavino basilica , joins the second edition of the National Romanesque Days.

There will be a free guided tour to discover the largest Romanesque church on the island on Saturday 23 September from 5pm to 6pm . A monument built at the beginning of the 11th century AD which stands out for its original characteristics in the vast panorama of Romanesque architecture in Sardinia, the only example designed with two facing apses.

Visitors will be able to appreciate the basilica dedicated to the Turritan martyrs, Gavino, Proto and Gianuario, who lived at the time of the Christian persecutions of the emperors Diocletian and Maximian and who were killed in 303 AD

The soldier Gavino was beheaded on 25 October after having converted thanks to the meeting with the presbyter Proto and the deacon Gianuario, killed on 27 October.

The seventeenth-century crypt houses the relics of the Turritani Martyrs and it is possible to admire splendid sarcophagi from the Roman era inside, as well as the remains of a funerary monument from the 4th century. A.D

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