"Su Casteddu", the ancient pisan fortress

The "Castello" quarter dominates from his position the whole town and develops on the ancient pisan fortress. Thanks to its old walls, survivors of the 1st and the 2nd world war, the massive 1300th twin towers of Saint Pancrazio and of the "Elefante" planed by Giovanni Capula, its bottlenecks and unexpected wide stretchs, it represents the memories and the still living heart of Cagliari.

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 Pisans carried a new military and artistic ferment

The Roman domination finished in the 455 A.D., with the Vandals invasion. Then it was the time of the Byzantines (533 A.D.), with a short parenthesis of the Goths (from 552 to 578 A.D.), hence (...)

The Roman domination from 238 B.C. to 455 A.D.

In 238 B.C, the city was given the name of Cagliari, this was when the Romans choose it as an ideal landing place for their military operations in the Island. Numerous valuable testimonies of their domination (...)

The Phoenician period and the entrance door to Sardinia

The majority of the Nuragic populations that lived in the present Cagliari's zone, used to be committed to fishing, agriculture and craft. But, when in the VIII century B.C., the Phoenician approached (...)

The origins: the first human settlements in the IV millennium B.C.

Cagliari is one of the oldest cities in Sardinia. Traces of human settlement, dating back to the end of the IV and the beginning of the III millennium B.C. (the Shardàna people), have been discovered (...)