The City Palace offers an exhibition route divided into two sections: the west wing and the east wing, accessible respectively from Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Via Sebastiano Satta.
The west wing houses on the ground floor the “Memory and Identity” room, which provides an immediate representation of the places, memory, and city identity, and the “Form and Image” room, which displays the graphic representation of the urban core within the walls and a collection of 19th-century photographic images.
From the first floor, through the monumental staircase, you access the representative rooms, among which the “Intregu” room stands out. Here, the ceremony of homage by the Guilds to the Authorities takes place on the occasion of the “Faradda” of the Candlesticks on August 14. On the upper floors there is a small educational room and the room dedicated to the Candlesticks, while, in the attic spaces, supported by the original wooden beams, is the mechanism of the clock dating back to 1867, perfectly functional.
The east wing hosts the Documentation Center on the history of the city. The two upper floors house exhibitions on the theme of traditional clothing in everyday life between city and countryside. The first floor offers reproductions of the clothing of the wealthy city class from the early 1820s, along with watercolors by Giuseppe Cominotti (1792–1833) illustrating them. In the same room, reproductions of buttons and silver ornaments made by local artisans are exhibited. The second floor hosts clothing styles of adult commoners, children, and women who practiced humble trades and small businesses. On the third floor, the “Sacred and Profane” room is set up, divided into two sections dedicated to city religiosity, with particular reference to Holy Week rites and the typically popular expressions of the festival, such as Carnival. These two aspects are well represented in the room with works by Eugenio Tavolara (1901–1963) featuring the procession of the “Procession of Mysteries” (1929) and the “Sassari Masquerade” (1937).
The City Palace, as a privileged place of representation and preservation of memory and identity, is the heart of the municipality of Sassari. It is also home to the civic theater, whose fine architectural forms date back to the 19th-century refoundation.
Information about City Palace Museum
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
Sassari (Sassari)
079 2015122
sardegnacultura@regione.sardegna.it
https://www.sardegnacultura.it
Source: MIBACT
