xviii List Of Figures And Plates
18.12 Alghero. Church of San Francesco 494
19.1 Medieval new towns or “Villenove” 501
19.2 Aerial photograph of Quartu, (Cagliari) showing the early medieval
urban settlement based on courtyard compounds 507
19.3 Ortacesus (Cagliari), covered fountain based on the Islamic cuba
type 508
19.4 The town of Gonnosfanadiga (Cagliari plain) is structured by
courtyard dwellings and labyrinthine dead-end streets. The name
Fanadig (plural of Fundouk) preserves traces of Sardinia’s Islamic
presence. (Ufficio Tecnico Erariale, Cessato Catasto, Cagliari
province, Gonnosfanadiga, detail, about 1920) 509
19.5 The Romanesque church of San Pietro di Sorres in Borutta (second
half of the eleventh century–second half of the twelfth century) has
a double lancet window of Islamic inspiration 510
19.6 Muravera in the Sarrabus area in the southeast of the island has
an urban structure based on Mediterranean Islamic models,
according to schemes that were widespread in many of the region’s
villages (Ufficio Tecnico Erariale, Cessato Catasto, Cagliari province,
Muravera, detail, about 1920) 512
19.7 Sassari. The “violinist’s plan” (1806) effectively describes the city’s
urban structure. An originally arcaded commercial axis organizes
a densely built context based on blind alleys and courtyards (State
Archive of Turin, 3.CI red) 517
19.8 Oristano’s reconstructed plan (from a nineteenth-century cadastral
plan, by Cadinu, Zanini, and the cooperative La Memoria Storica,
1997). Two sets of walls enlarged the city from the giudicato era to
the thirteenth century. Around the area indicated by the letter (A),
the highest point in the city is the hypothetical location of the first
giudicato site (Palazzo Vecchio), which orients the axes of the two
monumental towers erected in 1290 (1) and in 1293 (2). The convents
and churches of Santa Chiara (f ), San Francesco (fr), San Domenico
(d), the ruga mercatorum-via Dritta system (aa and bb) are shown.
Outside the walls, the large triangular market square named Via
Aristana (g) and the via Vinea Regum (cc) (Cadinu, 2001) 519
19.9 The linear village (via Dritta) of Villamassargia (Iglesias), a
thirteenth-century settlement. “Casalini” were located nearby at
the end of the thirteenth century; on the bottom, the Romanesque
San Ranieri church (from Cadinu, 2009) 523
19.10 Bosa and parts of its complex medieval urban fabric. The castello (C)
and the church of Nostra Signora de los Regnos Altos (S), the first