Spanish and Savoia, the final acts of the dominations

In 1326, it was the time of the Aragoneses, who expressly chose the quarter of Castle as their operational and commercial site: during the fall of night, as it used to be at the times of the Pisan-domination, the inhabitants of Cagliari had to abandon the stronghold, garrisoned by the Iberian army. The local population lived in the near quarters of Navy, Stampace and Villanova.

Going directly to 1708, at the time of the domination of the Austrians, who ten years later yielded the city to Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoia: they also chose as their representative site the Palazzo Viceregio (XIV century). This palace accommodates from many years the offices of the Prefettura of Cagliari.

The 1793 has been for Cagliari, and for the entire Sardinia, an important moment of maturation of the ridge between the Ancien Régime's absolutism and the XIX century's liberalism. That year, in fact, the powerful French fleet was sent away the Cagliari coast, thanks to a series of favorable events and to the involvement of the army composed by rural town inhabitants, stimulated from the nobles and the Church. A that time, the Stamenti, the three arms of the Sardinian Reign's Parliament (consisting respectively on the representatives of the clergy, the feudatory and city directions such as Cagliari, Sassari, Oristano, Bosa, Alghero, Castelsardo, Iglesias), proceeded to the Savoia a series of condensed claims, demanding a better consideration of the ancient prerogatives of the Sardinia Reign, from the Savoy monarchy.

The lukewarm answer of the Savoy government was the detonator of an historical revolt, today remembered with the demonstration “Sa Die de sa Sardigna” (The Day of Sardinia): in 1794, the Piedmontese civil employees present in Cagliari were dismissed by the furious population, asking for a substitution. But it did not really go as the rebells hoped.

Finally, in 1847, there was the so-called “fusione perfetta” (perfect fusion) with the Piedmont: a perfect union of laws and jurisdiction among the insular territories (Sardinia) and the continental part (Piedmont) already pertaining to the Reign of Sardinia.