Sassari - Sassari

Sassari is a city of Sardinia, capital of the homonymous province.

To know

Geographical notes

Sassari is located in the historical region of Nurra and borders on Alghero, Muros, Olmedo, Osilo, bones, Porto Torres, Sennori, Sip, Stintino, Tissi, Uri is Usini.

How to orient yourself

Main routes

• Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, formerly called Platha de Codinas
• Trinity Course, with fragments of the medieval walls and alley Godimondo.
• The walls, of the eighteenth century. are visible along the perimeter of the medieval city, and in particular in Vico course, course of the SS. Trinity and in via Torre Tonda; the round tower also called Turondola it is accessible from piazza Università.

Squares

• Piazza Castello, from the name of the Aragonese castle of 1330 which stood in place of the barracks La Marmora.
• Tola Square, where the public measure was located, was in fact the carra manna, with a monument to Pasquale Tola from 1903.
• Piazza d'Italia, with the monument to Vittorio Emanuele II of 1899.

Fractions

• Argentiera
• Pallets
• Baratz
• Biancareddu
• Bonassai
• Coffee Rome
• Campanedda
• Rogue
• Caniga
• Filigheddu
• The court
• The Crucca
• The Landrigga
• La Muntagna
• La Pedraia
• You point them
• Mandra of the Ainu
• Marchetto
• Molafa
• Octave
• Palmadula
• Pian di Sorres
• Platamona (shared with the municipalities of Sorso and Porto Torres)
• Saccheddu
• St. Camillus, Saint Francis
• Saint John
• Sant'Orsola
• Tottubella
• Royal Truncu
• Villa Assunta (shared with the municipality of Alghero)
• Villa Gorizia
• Holy River (shared with the municipality of Porto Torres)
• Zuari

How to get

By plane

• 40.6311118.2886111 Alghero-Fertilia Airport (IATA: AHO) (25 km from Sassari), ☎ 39 079 935011. L'Alghero-Fertilia airport, to which Sassari refers, is served by Ryanair with Pisa, Bologna, Milan-Bergamo and some European cities, from Alitalia with Rome-Fiumicino and Milan-Linate and by other airlines serving other national and European destinations.  
• 40.8986119.51752 Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (IATA: OLB) (103 km from Sassari), ☎ 39 0789 563400, fax: 39 0789 563401. L'Olbia-Costa Smeralda airport is connected with several Italian and European cities by Alitalia with Rome-Fiumicino, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Bologna, Verona and Turin and other scheduled and low cost airlines including Easyjet, Volotea, Smartwings, Transavia, British Airways, Austrian and many others.  

On boat

• From the port of Porto Torres.

On the train

• 40.7294448.5538893 Sassari station. Sassari can be reached by train from all over Sardinia.  

How to get around

By public transport

Service carried out byATP.

What see

Monuments

• 40.7311118.5605561 Rosello Fountain. From late Renaissance 1606, where the statue of San Gavino is a copy of the original one dated 1975, while the statues of the seasons are dated 1828.  

Museums

• 40.7263948.5636562 Historical Museum of the Sassari Brigade, Piazza Castello, 9 (Inside the La Marmora barracks). Free admission. Mon-Fri 8: 00-16: 30, Sat 8: 00-13: 00.  
• 40.72258.5672223 National Archaeological-Ethnographic Museum G.A. Sanna, Via Roma, 64. Built to preserve the collections of Giovanni Antonio Sanna subsequently donated to the State, enriched with the ethnographic section and enlarged. The most important works are Madonna and Child by Bartolomeo Vivarini and S. Sebastiano by Giovanni del Giglio.  
• 40.7272728.5595054 MUSE (Sassari Art Museum), Via S. Caterina (In the former Jesuit college of Canopoleno). 2€. Mon-Fri 9: 00-13: 30, Tue also 15: 00-17: 30. Recently opened city art gallery.  
• 40.7264838.5578395 Diocesan Museum of the Cathedral Treasury, Piazza Duomo (Inside the church and crypt of San Michele). Among the paintings, Flight to Egypt by Alessandro Turchi and the Madonna of Unity by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo and a highly prized processional banner of the fifteenth century.  

Churches

• 40.7274138.5599566 Church of Santa Caterina. From the 12th century, completed in 1607.  
• 40.7255568.5619447 Church of the Madonna del Rosario, Piazza Rosario, 2. With a facade of 1759, in the back wall of the apse chapel is the wooden retable of 1686. 
• 40.728758.5586118 Church of Sant'Andrea. With baroque facade from 1648.  
• 40.7305568.5558339 Church of S. Antonio Abate, S. Antonio square. From 1709, with a baroque facade, the retable in gilded wood is worthy of note. 
• 40.7263898.55416710 St. Mary of Betlem. From the 12th-19th century, a complex that had an institutional function to which i gremi, the workers' congregations headed, and where the candlesticks for the homonymous feast of August 14 are still kept. In the cloister the brigliadore fountain of the sixteenth century.  

• 40.7266678.55833311 St. Nicholas Cathedral (Cathedral of San Nicola). From the 12th century, with a single nave Gothic interior, the sacristy of the beneficiaries and the capitular sacristy, a wooden choir in Sardinian walnut from the 18th century.  

Palaces

• 40.7277788.5612 Farris House. Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 23, from the 15th century. 
• 40.7277788.55972213 King Enzo's house. With sculpted capitals, from the 1400s. 
• 40.7280568.5614 Civic Theater, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 35. Of 1826.  

• 40.7250118.56333215 Giordano Palace, Piazza d'Italia, 19. In neo-Gothic style, designed in 1878.  
• 40.7277788.56277816 Sebastian's Palace. About 1820.  
• 40.7279848.56153917 Palazzo d'Usini, Tola Square. From 1577 where the Municipal Library is located.  
• 40.7266678.55916718 Ducal Palace. Seat of the town hall, from the end of the eighteenth century.  
• 40.724858.55974719 University building. With a facade from 1929 while the rear is the original sixteenth-century one, the Aula Magna dates back to 1929.  
• 40.7255648.56470620 Palace of the Province (It overlooks Piazza d'Italia). In late neoclassical style, it is possible to visit theCouncil chamber from 1881 with decorations by Giuseppe Sciuti.  

Events and parties

• Candlesticks. August 14.  
• Sardinian ride. Penultimate Sunday of May.  

What to do

Shopping

How to have fun

Where to eat

Where stay

Safety

How to keep in touch

Around

• Prehistoric sanctuary Monte d'Accoddi - Pre-Nuragic complex located about 12 km from Sassari on the road leading to Porto Torres Ex S.S. 131. Open from Tue to Sun 8:00 am-5:00pm from October to March or 9:00 am-6:00pm from April to September.
• Porto Palmas - Beach of the municipality of Sassari which is located between Palmadula and theArgentiera. Very important for fishing activities, it was considered at the end of the eighteenth century as one of the best ports on the island and an inlet of great importance. The beach is made up of dark gold sand, with the water being blue mixed with green, the surrounding vegetation is typical Mediterranean. In 2017 and 2018 for two consecutive years, together with Porto Ferro it was awarded the blue flag, the beach is used by tourists every summer for its pristine habitat. The seabed is mostly sandy. The beach has some services. Near the beach there is a cemetery from which the miners are buried. It can be reached through the SP 18 (Sassari-Argentiera). The beach has a crescent shape with a length of about 200 meters, with two cliffs at the ends that delimit its extension. Close to it there are the Argentiera mines, with the former homes and leases for miners today transformed and converted into spaces for holidays.
• Porto Ferro - Bay with a beautiful beach.
• Baratz Lake - The only natural lake in the Sardinia.

• Platamona
• Holy River
• Beaches of Argentiera, La Pedraia, Lampianu and Biancareddu - Including: Rena Mayore, Cala dell'Argentiera, Cala rocchi san Nicola, La landslide, Lampianu beach, Punta Lu Nibaru beach, Punta Agliastroni beach (Cala Capo Negru), Punta Lu Pisanu beach, Porto Palmas coves North, Cala di Punta la Banderetta, Caletta Lago delle Vergini, Cala Di La Carazza and Cala di Fora.

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