Assemini

Aces Mini is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 26,607 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in the Province of Cagliari in Sardinia. The municipality is located in the valley of the rivers Cixerri, Flumini Mannu and Sa Nuxedda.

Economy

Aces Mini is the production site for Heineken lager Birra Ichnusa. Even from the days of the Carthaginians stir numerous workshops forth for the production of pottery and ceramics.

Traffic

North of the village, the Strada Statale 130 runs about five kilometers south of the town is the Cagliari airport. The train route from Cagliari to Golfo Aranci here has multiple breakpoints (Aces Mini Carmine, Aces and Aces Mini Mini Santa Lucia ), where the Servizio di Cagliari ferroviario metropolitano wrong.

Attractions

Among the churches of Aces Mini are culturally and historically two particularly valuable.

Parish Church of San Pietro

The parish church of San Pietro di Aces Mini, located in the center of a formerly rural town with old pottery tradition. It was mainly built in the 16th century in a spread in the south of Sardinia variant of Catalan-Gothic style. The single-nave church, with Capilla Mayor ( main chapel ) and side chapels, has a flat, horizontal and ending zinnenbekränzte facade with angled issued technicians and a square tower, modeled after San Giacomo in Cagliari. The tower is one of the highest on the island.

There are no inscriptions or documents that provide a chronology of the various stages of construction. The original structure, including the facade, the bell tower ( the top two floors of the 18th century) and the supporting arches date from the late 15th or early 16th century. The side chapels were all grown in the course of the 16th century. The rebuilding of the chancel and the addition of the transept were not made before the end of the 16th century and led to a complete change of the nave (now with the same width and height). The ship has a large ribbed vault, while the arms and the presbytery have barrel vaults.

Oratorio di San Giovanni

Directly behind San Pietro is the pre-Romanesque Oratorio di San Giovanni ( Battista ) probably dating from the 10th century. The first mention was only 1108. Byzantine architecture of the church of John the Baptist is for the entire Mediterranean a testimony of the utmost importance. The inscriptions in Greek preserve the memory of the oldest judge of the giudicato Cagliari.

The typical Byzantine central building ( in the manner of San Saturno in Cagliari), has a ground plan in the shape of a Greek cross with a 10 m long sides, small apse to the east and barrel vaults in the side arms. The five -meter high facade is dominated by a small bell tower. The outer walls of limestone are worked roughly divided into many parts, while the vaults were made ​​with greater accuracy.

In the middle of high pseudo square drum is without squinches with slender central dome. Inside there are Byzantine relief fragments, including a group of statue fragments with name inscriptions. Torcotorio Archon and Getite Nispella lived between the mid-10th and mid-11th century. Their names are in the phase of transition between occupied by the Byzantine rule and the judiciary by other documents.