Museo Deleddiano, birthplace of Grazia Deledda, Nuoro

The birthplace of the writer Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1926, dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century; located in San Pietro, the district of shepherds which together with Seuna constitutes the oldest cluster in the city, it is an example of a middle-class Nuoro house. The building develops over three floors, with inner courtyards on the ground floor. Deledda lived there until the wedding day, which took place in 1900. Declared a national monument, it was purchased in 1968 by the Municipality of Nuoro, which transferred it to the Regional Higher Institute of Ethnography in 1979, at the 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 came into possession of a large number of manuscripts, photographs, various documents, and personal objects that, transferred from Rome to Nuoro, formed the first stock of the museum. In 2006 the collection was enriched with new and important documents. The visitor is invited to travel through time, society, and the places of the one who, through her writing, made the culture and feelings of Barbagia and the whole Sardinia known to the world.