The Palazzo di Città 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 offers an immediate representation of the places, memory, and city identity, and the “Shape and Image” room, which presents the graphic representation of the urban core within the city walls and a collection of photographic images from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
From the first floor, via the monumental staircase, you access the representative rooms, among which the “Intregu” room stands out. Here takes place the ceremony of homage from the Guilds to the Authorities on the occasion of the “Faradda” of the Candelieri on August 14. On the upper floors there is a small educational room and a room dedicated to the Candelieri, while in the attic rooms, supported by the original wooden beams, there is the clock mechanism dated 1867, still in perfect working order.
The east wing houses the Documentation Center on the history of the city. On the two upper floors, the exhibitions focus on traditional clothing in daily life between the city and the countryside. The first floor offers reproductions of clothing of the wealthy urban class from the early 1820s, together with watercolors by Giuseppe Cominotti (1792–1833) illustrating them. In the same room, reproductions of buttons and silver ornaments made by local artisans are displayed. The second floor hosts clothing styles of adult commoners, children, and women who performed humble trades and small businesses. On the third floor, the “Sacred and Profane” room is arranged, divided into two sections dedicated to city religiosity, with particular reference to the rites of Holy Week and to typically popular festival expressions, such as Carnival. The two aspects are well represented in the room with works by Eugenio Tavolara (1901–1963), including the procession of the “Procession of the Mysteries” (1929) and the “Sassarese Masquerade” (1937).
The Palazzo di Città, 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 valuable architectural forms date back to the nineteenth-century reconstruction.
Information about the Palazzo di Città Museum
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
Sassari (Sassari)
079 2015122
sardegnacultura@regione.sardegna.it
https://www.sardegnacultura.it
Source: MIBACT
