Il Palazzo di Città offers an exhibition path 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, through the monumental staircase, you access the representative rooms, among which stands out the “Intregu” room. Here the ceremony of homage from the Guilds to the Authorities takes place on the occasion of the “Faradda” of the Candelieri on August 14. On the upper floors there is a small educational room and the room dedicated to the Candelieri, while, in the attic rooms, supported by the original wooden beams, there is the clock mechanism dated 1867, perfectly working.
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 countryside. The first floor offers reproductions of clothing of the wealthy city class of 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 exhibited. The second floor hosts clothing styles of adult commoners, children, and women who performed humble trades and small businesses. On the third floor are set up the “Sacred and Profane” room, divided into two sections dedicated to city religiosity, with particular reference to the rites of Holy Week and typically popular expressions of the festival, such as Carnival. The two aspects are well represented in the room with works by Eugenio Tavolara (1901–1963) with 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 custody 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 refoundation.
Information on Palazzo di Città Museum
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
Sassari (Sassari)
079 2015122
sardegnacultura@regione.sardegna.it
https://www.sardegnacultura.it
Source: MIBACT
