Quartucciu (CA)

Quartucciu, probably identifiable with the "Quarto suso" or "Superiore", is one of the three nuclei which in the Aragonese period made up the nearby Quartu Sant'Elena.

In the central square of the town stands the parish church dedicated to the Madonna della Difesa (Sa Defensa), which preserves late Gothic structures of the century. XV; despite being in a central position with respect to the historic core, the square has never reached the characteristics of an urban node.