San Simplicio, Olbia

San Simplicio in Olbia is a Romanesque basilica in Olbia, Sardinia (Italy). The eponymous saint of the former Cathedral is the oldest surviving Bishop of the island, the patron saint of the city and one of the five martyrs of the island. Your predecessor was a Byzantine church, which was probably built 594-611 AD and was near a römischern temple. The church is the greatest architectural gem of Gallura.

San Simplicio originated from the late 11th to the mid 12th century on a hill outside the city walls, which was previously a Punic cemetery. In the 12th century the barrel vault created from baked bricks of the side aisles, the upper portions of the side walls, the Pisan- Provencal façade and an extension of the building by two buttresses emerged. Today's location within the old town church of gray- yellow granite has a clear three-part facade. The middle part of the plain portal and a divided by marble columns serlian window is in the oriental style. The small, held in the Spanish style, bell tower on the right side is a supplement of the Spanish period in Sardinia ( 16th century). Dominated by a high gable, small and rare western apse as well as the side walls with pilasters and Pisan blind arches decorated.

The interior of the basilica with three naves divided by columns and pilasters with Lombard Granitkapitellen. On the walls of the old Roman road milestones are set up. In the center of the apse are two damaged frescoes depicting St. Simplicio and Victor of Fausania that was after 595 Bishop in Olbia, the then Fausania said. Under the altar the relics of St. Simplicio were in 1614 during the construction of a crypt, discovered.