Manzoni Square, 13th century The first construction phase of the sanctuary can be dated back to the thirteenth century and is characterised by square stone pilaster strips and small round arches. The second phase, this time from the Ardgonese epoch, is identifiable through a single-light pointed window. The third, eighteenth …
Piazza Guglielmo Oberdan The work, created by the sculptor Francesco Ciusa, is in white marble supported by a basalt pedestal and rests on a square granite base. The sculpture represents suffering and despair, both of them visible on the face of the male figure as well as that of the …
Via Azuni, 17th century The building forms a single structure with the Monastero delle Figlie della Chiesa (Monastery of the Daughters of the Church). It was built at the behest of the third Franciscan order adhering to the Capuchin way, which originally dedicated it to Saint Elisabeth. The facade is …
College Square, 16th – 17th century Designed by the architect Giovanni Maria Bernardoni at the end of the XVI Century, it stands on the ruins of the ancient palace of the Donoratico’s as headquarters of the Jesuit order and expresses the language of Counter-Reformation churches modelled after Jacopo Vignola’s Church …
Lamarmora Square The fountain might have acquired its name of Maimone from the underground noise of the waters converging into it or from the decoration of the statue surmounting it, as the name recalls in fact the Sardinian divinity associated with the water cult. The marble statue is propped up …
