Audioguide Style: Romanesque The Romanesque Church of Santa Maria in Uta was built in the 12th century A.D. by Pisan workforce. They used calcareous stone with marble, granite and trachyte inserts. The facade is asymmetric, the portal is surmounted by Corinthian capitals, the lunette has a rose carved on it and […]
Monuments
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Audioguide https://www.cagliariperimmagini.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Chiesa-San-Michele-Inglese.mp3 The Church of Saint Michael is part of the complex comprising the ex Residence of the novitiate and the beautiful Sacresty, work of G.B. Corbellini, seriously damaged in the vault by the bombardments in 1943. The site leave astonished by the extravagance and richness, for the structure and […]
Audioguide Su Niu de su Pilloni is a fortified pre-nuragic area, built around the 3rd millennium b.C. to protect a village. It is 128 meters above sea level, defended by the mountains behind it, and from its top you can admire the Campidano plain, the river Cixerri and the pond as […]
Audioguide Style : Neo-Gothic Designers : Antonio Cerruti The former Hotel Scala di Ferro stands on the area used in Roman times as a cemetery for sailors where, in the Middle Ages, the « Bastione di Nostra Signora del Monserrato » was built. In 1852 the are was bought by Antonio Cerruti who, […]
Audioguida Style: Romanticism Designers: Giuseppe Sartorio (1886) The monument, is a war memorial dedicated to the Sardinian soldiers during the three Italian Wars of Indipendence, and it looks like an obelisk in black basalt decorated in white marble. On the base we can notice carved guns, cannons and other war equipments, the flag […]
Audioguide https://www.cagliariperimmagini.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Inglese-Bastione-1-Michelangelo-EDITATO.mp3 Style : Revivalism Designers: Ing. Giuseppe Costa (1900-1902) The Bastione S. Remy, inaugurated in 1902, connects the neighborhoods of Castello, Marina and Villanova, in the past separated by a drop of thirty meters, through a monumental double flight of steps, which leads to a covered promenade and a panoramic viewpoint […]
Audioguide Style: Modern Style “interior” (1838-1855) This historic café owes its name to the Ligurian origin of its founder, Lazzaro Canepa, who opened it in 1838. It has been called the Café Genovese since 1855, and attended by prominent men and women of letters as Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, Antonio Gramsci, […]
Audioguide Style: Neoclassical / Iron and glass architecture (1886) Designers: Ing. Enrico Melis The main building of the ancient town market had a neoclassical façade, in accordance with the style used in Largo Carlo Felice, with three jutting trachyte avant-corps. Through the central avant-corp, a big triumphal arch gave access to the […]
Audioguide Style: Late-Gothic / Baroque (1563) Designers : Cavalieri Templari The church was built on a space previously used as a burial area. The church presents a single nave with a presbitery on a Late-Gothic plant. In the Chapel of Mercy, built in 1686, we can admire an altar in Baroque style. […]
Audioguide Style: Baroque The construction of the ancient Church of the Genoese Brotherhood of Cagliari began in 1599. The church originally had a longitudinal plan with three chapels on each side, a square chancel and a barrel vault supported by pillars. The facade was completed in 1672 with an elaborate […]