Church of Saint Anthony the Abbot

The church was built in the early 18th century on the ruins of a pre-existing building. The facade is in Baroque style and the interior is in the shape of a Latin cross.

Description
The church of Sant'Antonio abate was built from scratch between 1700 and 1707 on the initiative and at the expense of the bishop of Bosa, Giorgio Sotgia Serra, a Servite from Sassari, as stated in the inscription on the architrave of the portal (OPVS ABSOLVTVM ANNO 1707). The building partially incorporates the previous church of Sant'Antonio, of Catalan-Gothic style, using it as a transept within its Latin cross layout.
The first master involved in the construction was Pedro Falqui from Bosa, master builder very active in Sassari in civil and religious buildings since 1676. In a document dated 1698 it is specified that Falqui had to demolish and rebuild the church, sparing the chapel of Nostra Signora dei Servi and that of San Felipe, in accordance with a drawing in his possession, which describes in detail the characteristics of the building which, although with one span less, correspond to those of the current church, including the two late Gothic persistences at the ends of the transept. Due to a dispute with Sotgia Serra, Falqui was replaced in June 1700 with Matteo Del Rio, master builder of the albaniles of the city since 1683, who completed the work.
Although the master builders were all local and the structure of the building, despite its greater size and complexity, used elements and a compositional syntax very similar to those already used in other churches in the city (of the Cappuccine and of San Donato, completed respectively in 1692 and in 1695), it cannot be excluded that the drafting of the project was the work of the Servite father Maestro Francesco Locatelli, sent to Sassari in 1678 by Sotgia Serra, who at the time held the position of General of the Order of the Servites.
The prospectus, in exposed ashlars, is divided into two orders by a high frame with a rectangular band; the lower part is punctuated by six Tuscan pilasters with a portal in the center framed by twisted columns, ending in grotesque figures, surmounted by a broken curvilinear tympanum in which a frieze is inserted and, at the top, the coat of arms of bishop Sotgia Serra. The second order has an aedicule window in the center surmounted by a triangular tympanum and flanked by two false openings of the same shape but smaller in size; two inflected wings enclose it at the sides while a large curvilinear pediment - a Baroque element together with the portal - delimits the top.

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