Deleddian Museum, Birthplace of Grazia Deledda, Nuoro

The birthplace of the writer Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926, dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century; located in San Pietro, the shepherds’ district which together with Seuna forms the oldest settlement in the city, it is an example of a well-to-do Nuorese residence. The building develops over three floors, with internal courtyards on the ground floor. Deledda lived here until her wedding day in 1900. Declared a national monument, it was purchased in 1968 by the Municipality of Nuoro, which transferred it in 1979 to the Regional Higher Ethnographic Institute for a symbolic price of one thousand lire. The Institute immediately worked so that the house could host a museum dedicated to the writer. Thanks to the generosity of the Madesani-Deledda family, ISRE acquired a large number of manuscripts, photographs, various documents, and personal objects which, transferred from Rome to Nuoro, formed the first collection of the museum. In 2006, the collection was enriched with new and important documents. The aim is to offer visitors a journey through time, society, and the places of the woman who, through her writing, made known worldwide the culture and feelings of Barbagia and all of Sardinia.