Balagne Corsica

The Chapel is dedicated to San Lussoriu, the Sardinian martyr of the third century AD. It is now in ruins but still very much visible in Zilia cemetery.

This construction was a main place of worship since we find, below
of the church, the toponym "Trufuna" which refers to the rite of Holy Week.

It is dedicated to San Lussoriu, Sardinian martyr of the third century AD. This saint beheaded under Diocletian is celebrated on August 21. One hypothesis locates this fifteen-meter-long chapel on the site of a pre-Romanesque building from the 7th century. Dating from around the end of the 10th century, its construction was made with stones from previous buildings.

Several times modified, it was abandoned as a parish church in the 17th century.

The mass grave ("the arca") will be used until the beginning of the 20th century. A statue of San Lussoriu can still be seen inside the Church of San Roccu.

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