The villa stands at the foot of the San Michele hill and is named after Count Gaetano Pollini, a wealthy wheat merchant transplanted to Sardinia but originally from Liguria, who had it built in 1812. The building is part of a small urban complex including a chapel, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, now destroyed, facilities for agricultural activities and staff quarters. The façade, in neoclassical style, has a horizontal development with a tripartite division emphasized by two advanced lateral bodies with pediments and a central curved body, where a beautiful portal opens, flanked by columns and topped by a balcony. In front extended a large Italian-style garden, of which some palm trees and the basin of a circular fountain remain, while at the back a vast courtyard housed the rooms for agricultural activities. The various owners who lived in the villa after the Pollinis, including Francesco Zedda Piras, who in honor of his wife called it Villa Doloretta, certainly altered the original internal layout, of which no traces remain. Acquired by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, after restoration work, since 2007 it has been the operational headquarters of the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage for the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano.
Information about Villa Pollini
Via Edward Jenner,
09121 Cagliari (Cagliari)
070 528091 / 070 528091
Source: MIBACT
