Sassari

Sassari is a city in the northwest corner of Sardinia and a capital of the homonymous province. It is the second-largest city in Sardinia in terms of population with over 130,000 inhabitants.

Tourist information

• Infosassari

  phone: + 39 079 2008072
  address: Via Sebastiano Satta, 13

By plane

Alghero Airport (AHO), about away is the nearest to Sassari. Another relatively close airport is located in Olbia (105 km).

By boat

From ferry terminal in Porto Torres.

By train

There are plenty of regional trains, operated by Trenitalia, that connects with Olbia in the northwestern part of the Sardinia and with Cagliari in the south. Also a local narrow gauge line between Alghero (35 min) and Sorso runs via this station. This line is operated by ARST.

• Sassari railway station

  address: Piazza della Stazione

By bus

• Stazione dei pullmanSimply a series of bus stop with a ticket booth.

By car

By bus

• ATP SassariProvides urban bus services for the city.

By tram

• MetrosassariThe city has a short tram line. It's not very useful though for tourists at it reaches the city centre after a quite a bit of diversion into a periphery.

Old town

• Cattedrale di San NicolaThe cathedral was built in the 13th century and enlarged in Catalan Gothic style from 1480; there's a monument to the Duca di Moriana inside. The façade, belonging to the Baroque Spanish colonial restorations of 1650–1723, has a rectangular portico surmounted by three niches housing statues of saints. The bell tower is in Romanesque style.

• Fontana di RoselloThe 17th-century fountain built at the ancient source. The fountain is considered the symbol of the city. At the top of two crossing arches there is a statue of St. Gavino.

• Palazzo DucaleNow the City Hall.

• Le Stanze e le Cantine del DucaA part of the Civic Museum.

Palazzo di Città

phone: +39 079 2015122

Entering from Corso Vittorio Emanuele II visitors could see the interiors of the Palazzo di Città including the ball room, the historic Civic Theatre. Another entrance is from Via Sebastiano Satta through the tourist information office. This part presents some Sardinian costumes and two works of Eugenio Tavolara depicting the Carnival and the Holy Week in Sassari.

• Teatro Civico

Palazzo Tola

address: Piazza Tola, 42

There are still some traces there of its initial Renaissance façade.

Chiesa di Santa Maria di BethlemDespite its modest exterior it's richly decorated inside.

Vecchie muraA fragment of the Pisan city walls.

Other sites

• Palazzo dell'Università

• Palazzo della Provincia

  address: Piazza d'Italia
  Built in 1872.

• Casa CugurraBuilt in 1890 in Neo-Baroque style with 1906 extension in Liberty style.

• Villa Sant’EliaA villa in Liberty style.

• Padiglione per l'artigianato "Eugenio Tavolara"Tavolara pavilion for handicrafts and design is the headquarters and the exhibition space of I.S.O.L.A. (Sardinian craftsmanship institution). Built in 1956 by the project of Italian architect Ubaldo Badas.

• Museo Nazionale G.A. Sanna

  phone: +39 079 27 22 03
  address: Via Roma 64
  The National Museum "Giovanni Antonio Sanna" is the largest museum institution in the north-central Sardinia in size and importance of its scientific collections, and an important cultural reference for the North of the Island.

• Pinacoteca Mus'a al Canopoleno

  phone: +39 079 231560
  address: Piazza S. Caterina, 4

• Fior di Pane di Pecorini Laura

  phone: +39 079 216331
  address: Via Amendola, 42/B
  A bakery.

• Pasticceria Artistica Nuova Pagoda di

  phone: +39 079 3767091
  address: Via Degli Astronauti
  Pasticceria, gelato, espresso.

• Gelateria Ligure

  phone: +39 079 233610
  address: C. Vittorio Emanuele, 53
  Gelateria.

Budget

Mid-range

• Hotel Grazia Deledda

  phone: +39 079 271235
  address: Viale Dante, 47

Splurge

• • Alghero bright lively town at the Western coast of the island renown for its Catalan heritage
  • Castelsardo -- a pleasant town at the coast of the Asinara Gulf built around an old castle
  • Bosa -- a beautiful medieval small town
  • Porto Torres for its ancient basilica and the Roman remains