Basilica di Santa Croce

Cagliari


Originally a synagogue in the city’s Ghetto, this basilica was built in the wake of the Jewish expulsion from Sardinia in 1492. It was subsequently enlarged by the Jesuits in the 17th century and its interior chapels are largely baroque in appearance.


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