Church of St. Nicholas

The church of St. Nicholas stands in the "satellite" neighborhood of the same name in Ozieri, Sardinia.

In many texts, including scholarly ones, this church is frequently mistaken for the church of the same name that once stood in the medieval village of Butule and is now reduced to the state of ruins. In fact, although there is no certain attestation, most scholars agree that the church in question must have been the parish church of the medieval village of "Pira 'e mestighe," which was depopulated at the end of the 14th century or the beginning of the following century.

The church, which dates back to the 13th century, is made of squared blocks of reddish trachyte stone "face-on," laid in pseudo-isodomic work, with some sections the result of later reconstruction. The plan is characterized by a particularly long single nave, covered with wooden trusses, and with the chancel preceded by a round triumphal arch.

The sides of the building have hanging arches with corbels decorated with phytomorphic and zoomorphic motifs along the entire length of the hall; the main façade has an entrance portal devoid of any decoration, while above it opens a rectangular window enriched with a perimeter cornice in the Gothic-Aragonese style, and flanked on both sides by a series of 4 ogival hanging arches. The double slope of the facade is preceded by a small centered niche, originally intended to house a bell. On the ridge of the slopes is a small iron cross.

A wooden statue of the saint is kept inside.