Chiesa e cimitero di Fornelli

At the edge of the Sardinian countryside stands the Chiesa e cimitero di Fornelli, a church and cemetery whose quiet austerity is its chief character. The structure is straightforward: a rectangular plan, a simple campanile a vela (a wall-bell tower), and lateral buttresses that speak to practical, unadorned building traditions. What once made it distinctive, however, was its almost flat roof, broken by a dome of glass and mortar. That dome has now collapsed, and its wreckage remains inside, held up by four round arches and four columns with capitals, a ghost of an architectural ambition now returned to rubble. The church is a plain building of its period and region, but the fallen dome, with its shards still present, gives it a strange, poignant dignity. It is not a preserved monument, but a place where time has simply been allowed to happen.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.