Cagliari guide: travel tips and information

Dedicated to the patron saint of Cagliari, the Basilica is part of the area of ​​the oldest Christian necropolis of Cagliari, one of the most important early Christian complexes in Sardinia. The building, dating back to the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries AD, would have been erected on

The tower of San Pancrazio constitutes, together with the twin tower of the Elephant, the still intact part of the fortifications that the Pisans erected around the historic Castello district, in Cagliari, between the end of the XNUMXth

The name of the building comes from the "sessions" during which the Spanish viceroys listened to the complaints and pleas of the prisoners in the adjacent prisons located near the tower of San Pancrazio. Arranged on two floors which

At the end of the 400th century, the danger of Turkish incursions pushed the viceroy Juan Dusay to strengthen the fortifications of Cagliari. To strengthen the northern side of the walls of the Castello district, a

It exhibits agricultural tools and materials, household utensils, and finely crafted artefacts. Of great interest is the Roman well dating back to between the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD and a historic wine cellar consisting of

Palazzo Barrago, an elegant Art Nouveau building in the center of Cagliari, owes its name to its last owner. The building was actually built between 1913 and 1915 by the Ligurian entrepreneur Agostino Casaccia who planted on the island,

The Municipal Art Gallery is located within the splendid scenery of the Public Gardens. The main neoclassical façade was built in 1828, while the original block of the building, the first site of the royal powder magazine, dates back to the end

Together with the twin tower of San Pancrazio, it constitutes the part that is still intact today of the fortifications that the Pisans erected around the city between the end of the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth, in anticipation of

Since 1991, on the initiative of Professor Alessandro Riva, the waxworks have been exhibited in the pentagonal room of the Cittadella dei Musei. The original collection includes a collection of 23 anatomical models in polychrome wax, obtained from casts

It was established in 1764 with the Constitutions for the reform of the University and located, at the behest of King Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy, in the building erected above the Bastione del Balice, designed by the military engineer Saverio Belgrano of

At the foot of the Tuvixeddu hill, there is one of the few surviving testimonies of the Roman necropolis, made up of monumental tombs excavated and variously modeled in the rock. This is the mausoleum, dating back to the end

EXMA' is the ancient slaughterhouse of Cagliari; its construction dates back to the mid-1800s by Domenico Bocabino. The original project included a block of flats in the center of a vast square and four smaller buildings

The complex, known as Villa di Tigellio, indicates an archaeological area located at the foot of the Buon Cammino hill, a short distance from the Roman amphitheatre. Its name originates from the mistaken belief that it was located here

The current building of the State Archives of Cagliari dates back to the 20s. The first proposals for its construction were put forward starting from 1919 when the Ministry of the Interior invited the archival institutes.

The villa stands at the foot of the San Michele hill and owes its name to Count Gaetano Pollini, a rich grain merchant transplanted to Sardinia but of Ligurian origin, who had it built in

The National Art Gallery of Cagliari is located in the Citadel of Museums, a prestigious cultural structure designed in the second half of the twentieth century in the area of ​​the eighteenth-century Royal Arsenal, in the ancient Castello district. Housed in the palace since the end of the XNUMXth century

At the center of the Bay of Angels, Cagliari it is not only the capital of Sardinia, but also the main economic, political and cultural centre. Of Phoenician-Punic origins, it preserves an interesting mix of beauties and monuments, which testify to various eras and different cultural influences.