15 Sights in Sassari, Italy (with Map and Images)

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1. Domus de Janas di Molafà

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Molafà's tomb is a prehistoric archaeological site located in the municipality of Sassari, in the locality of Molafà. It is a Domus de Janas with an architectural prospectus, carved in the rock, which recalls the central stele and the exedra of the giants tombs, so much so that it is defined by some a "tomb of the giants dug in the rock". This tomb type is typical of some areas of the Sassarese while it is unknown in the rest of Sardinia, where you only have Domus de Janas and tombs of the classic giants.

Wikipedia: Tomba di Molafà (IT)

2. Orto Botanico - Università di Sassari

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The Orto Botanico dell'Università di Sassari is a new building complex now being constructed for the University of Sassari. It is located between Via Piandanna and SP15m at the western edge of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, and appears to be a successor to an earlier garden maintained by Regia Università di Sassari circa 1890-1910 Unclear events have accompanied the history of this building complex: and at that time, after 2009, criminal investigations were initiated.

Wikipedia: Orto Botanico dell'Università di Sassari (EN)

3. Chiesa di San Michele di Murusas

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The church of San Michele di Murusas is a place of worship located north-east of the city of Sassari, about a kilometer from the suburban district of Sant'Orsola. The building is the only testimony of the ancient village of Murusas, a settlement mentioned for the first time in the Condaghe of San Pietro di Silki in documents belonging to the second half of the eleventh century.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Michele di Murusas (IT)

4. Chiesa di San Pietro di Silki

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The church of San Pietro di Silki is one of the oldest Catholic places of Sassari. The church, annexed to the convent of the Franciscan friars, is located in a peripheral area, southwest of the historic center, and overlooks a large square accessible from via delle Croci, crossbar of Viale San Pietro. The temple is home to the womb of the farmers massai

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Pietro di Silki (IT)

5. Cattedrale di San Nicola

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Cattedrale di San Nicola Original uploader was Utente:Gfss84 at it.wikipedia / CC-BY-SA-3.0

Sassari Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, and is dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Sassari. It was built in the Romanesque style in the 12th century. The present building also includes Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical elements. Construction was finished in the 18th century.

Wikipedia: Sassari Cathedral (EN)

6. Teatro Civico

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The Teatro Civico di Sassari is located in the heart of the city along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II. It is named after Maestro Luigi Canepa. In the area currently occupied by the civic theater stood until 1826 the city palace, overlooking the disappeared Piazza del Comune, in the middle of the plata de Codinas, the central axis of the walled city.

Wikipedia: Teatro Civico (Sassari) (IT)

7. Museo - Palazzo della Frumentaria

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Museo - Palazzo della Frumentaria Felisopus / CC BY 3.0

The Frumentaria, or Palazzo della Frumentaria is a historic building in Sassari used as a museum and gallery of contemporary art. Located in the district of San Sisto, on the corner of Via al Rosello and Via delle Muraglie, it represents one of the rare survivals of Sassari civil construction of the sixteenth century.

Wikipedia: Frumentaria (IT)

8. Santa Caterina

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Santa Caterina is a monumental church of Sassari, currently home to the university chaplainia, located in Piazza Santa Caterina, in the historic center. The church of Santa Caterina was the first in Sardinia to be built according to liturgical-architectural counter-reformist canons, outlined by the Council of Trent.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Caterina (Sassari) (IT)

9. Necropoli di Ponte Secco

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The hypogean necropolis of Ponte Secco is an archaeological site located in the Nurra, region of north-western Sardinia, and more precisely near the state road 131 Carlo Felice, at km 221.6, in the stretch that joins the towns of Sassari and Porto Torres, from which it is respectively ten and six kilometers.

Wikipedia: Necropoli di Ponte Secco (IT)

10. Necropoli di Calancoi

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Calancoi's necropolis is an archaeological site located in north -western Sardinia about two kilometers from the city of Sassari which is administratively part. The complex is located a few hundred meters from the SS 127 in the stretch that connects Sassari to Osilo, at the height of the first Bunnari dam.

Wikipedia: Necropoli di Calancoi (IT)

11. Monte d'Accoddi

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Monte d'Accoddi Gianf84 / CC BY 2.5

Monte d'Accoddi is a Neolithic archaeological site in northern Sardinia, located in the territory of Sassari. The site consists of a massive raised stone platform thought to have been an altar. It was constructed by the Ozieri culture or earlier, with the oldest parts dated to around 4,000–3,650 BC.

Wikipedia: Monte d'Accoddi (EN), Website

12. Grotta dell'Inferno

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The Cave of Hell, Cave del Devolo or Grotta di Scala di Gocca, opens in the myocene limestones of the vicinity of the city of Sassari but falls within the territory of Muros. It is located on the western side of Mount Tudurighe near Scala di Gocca, at 320 m a.s.l.

Wikipedia: Grotta dell'Inferno (IT)

13. Museo della Brigata Sassari

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The Museum of the Sassari Brigade, located in Sassari in Piazza Castello on the ground floor of the Lamarmora barracks, was built in 1992 to remember the traditions and deeds of the mechanized Brigade "Sassari" especially during the First World War.

Wikipedia: Museo della Brigata Sassari (IT)

14. Chiesa di San Giacomo

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The church of San Giacomo is a religious building of Sassari located inside a courtyard whose entrance proposes in via Decimario, right in front of the Duomo, between the Palazzo Farina, and the Palazzo is missing from Mores, today Peretti.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giacomo (Sassari) (IT)

15. Museo nazionale Sanna

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The "G. A. Sanna" National Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum of Sassari is the main museum institution of central-northern Sardinia. He is named after Giovanni Antonio Sanna, entrepreneur and politician originally from Sassari.

Wikipedia: Museo nazionale archeologico ed etnografico G. A. Sanna (IT), Website

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