Sant'Efisio church
The church, in the middle of Capoterra, was built following Francesco Immeroni's plan between 1855 and 1858, to replace the old church consecrated to the patron saint, built in 1600 together with Villa Sant'Efisio. No traces of the old building or the old village remain.
The community had to pay a lot for their church (20.000 lire in that period!) and the municipality took out a forty-year mortgage.
The church's plan is Latin cross-shaped. The entrance door is inserted in a tympanum façade from which you reach the nave that intersects the transept.
Beyond the transept there is the apsed presbytery and two flanking side chapels. The one on the right leads to the bell tower. A crossed dome marks the intersection between the nave and the transept.
The seeming contrast between the church's interior and exterior catches the attention. inside, with its dome and the semicircular vaulted ceiling, such quiet fluidity of line is conducive to meditation; whereas the geometric angels and surfaces of the exterior soar skywards with an unmeditative confidence like the late gothic cross on pinnacle on the bell tower.