Deleddiano Museum, 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 shepherds’ district that together with Seuna forms the oldest cluster of the city, it is an example of a well-to-do Nuorese residence. The building develops over three floors, with internal courtyards on the ground floor. Deledda lived there until the day of her wedding, 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 Ethnographic Institute 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, the ISRE came into possession of a large number of manuscripts, photographs, various documents, and personal objects which, transferred from Rome to Nuoro, formed the first collection of the museum. In 2006 the collection was enriched with new and important documents. The aim is to offer the visitor a journey through time, into the society and places of the woman who, through her writing, made the culture and feelings of Barbagia and the whole of Sardinia known to the world.