Nostra Segnora de Mesumundu

However, it is also possible that it was used for the purification of ill people through an immersion rite (in Greek language "αγίασμα" in English holy water).

[3] The monks, moreover, to adapt the sacred building to the liturgy imposed by the catholic church following the East–West Schism, they added an apse and created a new entrance.

Between the late 1950s and early 1960s, following two excavation campaigns, the archaeologist Guglielmo Maetzke established the dating of the temple to the sixth century.

The central body remains of the original structure, a rotunda with a dome covering with two large windows with lowered arch open on the upper part, together with two unequal arms both apsed, oriented to the west and to the south.

Inside the building, there are a fragment of the Roman canalization and, at a higher level, the remains of the channels from the Byzantine era.