Spazio E_EMME is a place devoted to the presentation of artistic events, without restraints of any kind, open to the thousand faces of contemporary culture.

Art and culture are words leading to extremely diverse and distant interpretations, they sometimes generate ambiguities, unleash controversies and give rise to heated debates. By participating in our activities those who follow us create with us the sense of what we do.

Located in the historic district of Castello, Spazio 61 is an exhibition space for temporary and permanent art exhibitions.

"Cultural space, art atelier, gallery: three different ways to say the same thing, to suggest an activity that has the ultimate goal of bringing people together and making people talk and sharing ideas together. This place is called Space 61" (www.sardegnanovas.info).

Spazio 61 is also a cultural association whose purpose is the promotion and dissemination of art and in particular of painting, through various activities including exhibitions of young artists, cultural exchanges between Sardinian and non-Sardinian painters and any other activity necessary for the development and spread of the artistic culture.

The gallery-atelier is located in Cagliari in Via dei Genovesi 48 in the centre of an imaginary line connecting the Elephant Tower and the Cathedral, in the historic medieval district of Castello.

(In)visible is an exhibition space located in the centre of Cagliari, in the heart of the historic district of Marina.

(In)Visible was born in June 2006, visible and not visible, depending on the situations, the period, the mood... A place where to share artistic experiences with passion and emotion, discussing with art lovers, experts, artists and occasional visitors.

The building of the Società degli operai del Mutuo Soccorso (Workers' Mutual Aid Society) was founded in 1855: its first temporary headquarters were located in the district of Castello, in the council chamber of the old Town Hall.

The engineer Riccardo Simonetti made the project and was also responsible for the construction works. The Art Nouveau building built in 1912 consists of a ground floor and a first floor, where the offices and the Meeting room take place. The refinement of the Liberty style is clearly visible in the front door and in the staircase railings leading upstairs.

Over the years the building has undergone several restoration works following the damage caused by the Second World War. Of particular importance are the documents preserved in the glass cases, that recall the 147 years of history of the Foundation: historical documents about the founders and the events that marked the war.

A few steps from the train station and its ample parking, SNOB Luxury Suite is located in an elegant private building dating back to the early 1900s. The spacious rooms are modernly furnished and can be reached by lift, equipped with air conditioning and a flat-screen smart TV. wifi internet connection and private bathroom. In some rooms you can also enjoy the private sauna or a large private outdoor area, a large garden with chaise long, divantti and table.

Every morning in the buffet will be served Italian breakfast, and at your disposal all the necessary for hot drinks. Coffee machine and kettle are available for guests throughout the stay.

A short distance from the hotel you can reach the port and the train station, which connect the city airport in 5 minutes. You can take advantage of our transfer services to the beaches or the airport.

The Devil's Saddle, like the whole promontory of St. Elia, consists of sedimentary rocks of Miocene Epoch, and it is geologically quite young. Inside these rocks, several small caves were formed and inhabited by humans since the sixth millennium BC. The origin of the name comes from a legend, according to which the devils, fascinated by the beauty of the gulf of Cagliari, tried to seize it. Thereafter, God sent his favoured angels led by Archangel Michael, to banish Lucifer and his followers. The battle was fought in the skies over the gulf and today we still have two theories. The best known is that Lucifer, while escaping, was thrown from his horse and lost his seat that remained in the waters of the gulf and turned to stone, giving rise to the promontory. The other theory tells that ,during the battle, the demon fell on the promontory, giving to it the current form. Hence the Devil's Saddle and the Gulf of the Angels names. It is said that the angels, sent by the Almighty, are still faithful to their task and continue to protect the Gulf. Close to the highest point of the promontory (135 m above the sea level), it is supposed the presence of a Punic temple, perhaps a place of worship dedicated to Astarte. Moreover, it is also possible to admire a Punic tank, elongated, with remarkable dimensions: 27 m long and 4.5 m deep. Not far away there is another Roman cistern, from the classic shape of a truncated cone section. According to tradition, in these places, there has been the martyrdom of St. Elia, who has been killed during the persecutions of Diocletian, in the Byzantine period. The whole promontory bears his name today. In the eleventh century the whole area was given to the Victorini monks, who built a real monastery and took care of fish farms, ponds and cultivable areas in the surroundings.

The tower, now almost in ruins, is situated on the highest and panoramic point of the promontory and it is to be considered, however, as a part of the defense and sighting system, created by the Spanish during the sixteenth century. However, it would seem that from the Pisan period there was a tower, known as the "Lantern", with signaling functions. Later, the same tower was also called tower of pouhet, which means catch basin, because it is situated close to the the Roman cistern. The entire area would eventually be called "pouhet", hence the name "Poetto" attributed to the large beach of Cagliari. The coastal towers continued to be used during the Savoy period, since a royal decree of  1867 stipulated that they had no longer to be considered fortified places. During the Second World War were also built a fort and other buildings, which are still visible. In all likelihood, the materials reused were from the ruins of St.Elia church, of which, unfortunately, you can only the perimeter of the foundation.

The Historical Archive of the Municipality of Cagliari was established in 1326 and for the next two centuries in the Cathedral of the City, the place where the Civic Council met.

Over the centuries, documents have long remained unordered; in fact, the first provisions on the matter, issued under the Spanish Viceroys in 1660 and Savoy in 1738 and 1753, did not find practical application. The situation changed when Vittorio Amedeo III, on 10 December 1782, with two Royal Papers established the Archivist Office of the city.

The first reorganization of the documentation was carried out in 1896 by the illustrious palaeographer Silvio Lippi, then director of the Cagliari State Archive, to which the Mayor Ottone Baccaredda conferred the relative assignment.
In 1914 the materials now catalogued flowed into the new Palazzo Civico in Via Roma and at the same time the Municipality appointed director of the Archive Michele Pinna, an illustrious palaeographer and scholar from Cagliari; seven years later the Archive was flanked by the Civic Library, established in 1895.
On February 26, 1943 the bombings of the allied planes hit the Palazzo Civico hard, destroying the shelves and most of the archival and bibliographic documentation; the material suffered further damage forgotten for about three months between mud, dust and rubble.
The documentation was then collected and transported to the Boyl building of the Public Gardens, where it remained stacked until 1946, when the Municipality entrusted the management of the Historical Archive - Civic Library complex to Dr. Evandro Putzulu. This archivist is responsible for the recovery and reordering of both the papers and the bibliographic material.
The Archive complex, the Civic Library - which in the meantime had become a specialist library taking the name of the Municipal Library of Sardinian Studies - remained in this location until 2000, when the Municipality ordered its transfer to the headquarters in via Newton whose inauguration took place January 11, 2001.
Lastly, the Archive was transferred from the headquarters in via Newton to reopen to the public on April 30, 2011 in the MEM - MediaTek of Mediterranean.

THE HERITAGE
The historical archive by type, content and value of the preserved documentation assumes a relevance that goes beyond the mere local area, given the close ties that the city, capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia, maintained in the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries with the Iberian motherland. The preserved documents are sorted into four sections, distinguished according to a chronological criterion.

The FIRST SECTION or ANCIENT SECTION includes documents of fundamental importance from the historical and palaeographic point of view, collected in 831 folders. It is a conspicuous collection of parchments and real papers, membranaceous and paper codes that go from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century and which constitute an important testimony of the activities of the Cagliari town hall.

The SECOND SECTION includes documents ranging from the 17th century to 1870, collected and sorted in 802 folders and records.

The THIRD SECTION includes documents, collected in 507 folders and registers, relating to the period from 1871 to 1926. There is also an appendix, collected and ordered in 72 folders, consisting of the documentation relating to the municipalities of Pirri (1790-1870), Pauli Pirri (1871-1924), Monserrato (1853-1924) and Quartucciu (1865-1924), merged into the Municipality of Cagliari when in the fascist era they became hamlets.

Finally, the FOURTH SECTION, ordered in open series, consists of 143 registers, 51 envelopes, 248 files and 4 loose papers, and is related to the period from 1920 to 1964.
Over time, numerous funds received for purchases and donations have been added to this core of documents:
AUTOGRAPHERS FUND (2 folders)
PRINT FUND (198 units)
 
Private funds include:
FEUDAL ARCHIVE AYMERICH relative to the secc. XV-XIX, (318 folders and registers)
MILITARY STATION (26 folders)
TOP CARDS (2 folders)
VIVANET CARDS (4 folders)
GIORDANO CARDS (2 folders).
 
The Manuscript Funds are heterogeneous and rich in historical and cultural curiosities:
Sanjust (62 units), Ballero (19 units), Birocchi (8 units) and Martini (19 units).
The CARTOGRAPHICAL FUND (168 units) and the PHOTOGRAPHIC FUND (1776 units) relating to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are of considerable importance for the study of architecture and town planning.

Quiet, comfortable and informal enough, this is the Sardinia Domus Guesthouse.

The Guesthouse Sardinia Domus is located in an elegant building in the Largo Carlo Felice street, a few tens of meters from the railway station, the port and the bus station urban and suburban. The property was completely renovated in full respect of the original architecture and offers high quality services, in a perfect balance between privacy and a fairly informal environment.

All rooms are bright and comfortable, with private bathroom with shower, hairdryer, TV, wifi and air conditioning, with a daily housekeeping service . The furnishings throughout characterizes all the rooms, some more sober and simple other most charming, satisfying all tastes.