La Vega is a residential district of Cagliari. Located in the northern area of the city, it was built around 1930 and in the upper part houses the public gardens and the walls of the Castle. The name "la vega" has Spanish origins and indicates the garden because in the past there was a vast countryside here. Today it is mainly frequented by students and there is the Student House and the church of Saint Francesco d'Assisi, built in the second half of the twentieth century.

La Palma is a district of Cagliari that extends between the former salt flats of Molentargius and the Poetto beach. It is connected to the district of the Sun through via Favonio. It is a residential area, characterized by the presence of green spaces and public areas.

The area corresponding to the Is Mirrionis district was already frequented since the Copper Age as evidenced by the materials found and ascribable to the culture of Monte Claro, dating back to the second half of the third millennium BC. Until the nineteenth century it was a rural area but after the Second World War, starting from the sixties, it began to be more populous. Today it is a very important district for the city of Cagliari because of the presence of numerous public structures: the faculty of Letters and Engineering, the hospital and the park of Monte Claro.

Located at the foot of Monte Urpinu, the Genneruxi district arose in the early seventies. The derivation of the name has two historical hypotheses: in an ancient story it is said that there was a small wrought iron door with a cross (Genna 'e cruxi / Janua Crucis), the only remnant of an ancient cemetery or church, in the another seems that the name derives from the custom of the Benedictine monks to delimit the boundaries of the lands towards the Campidano with crosses. In any case, over the years the name has changed to the more fluid Genneruxi.

It is a high-rise residential district composed mostly of stately buildings, large villas and small villas, the largest villas with a large attached garden, are located mainly in the area adjacent to the Molentargius pond located between Marconi Avenue and the median axis.

Genneruxi is characterized by large green areas, wide tree-lined avenues and squares present especially along Stockholm street.

The parish in the area is the Santissimo Crocifisso, to which a very popular oratory is annexed.

Inside the neighbourhood there are several schools, a Cagliari light rail stop and various stops of the CTM bus nº 6.

An integral part of the Genneruxi district is the Saint Giuliano area:

Saint Giuliano (in Sardinian: Santu Lianu) is located under the eastern slopes of the hill of Monte Urpinu (on whose northern slopes stood the Benedictine monastery of Saint Giuliano and of which no trace remains) and ends on the banks of the canal that delimits the pond of Molentargius on this side.

Fonsarda is a residential and commercial district of Cagliari, built in the second half of the twentieth century.

Until the twentieth century on the site of the neighbourhood there were agricultural fields, orchards and country villas.

In the 1940s, at the end of the Second World War, the municipal administration decided to build a group of public housing units at the end of Dante Street (which in the municipal projects of 1926 should have continued until Pirri), to solve - at least partially - the situation of those who had lost their homes during the bombing. In front of this first group of houses a large square was installed, later dedicated to Pope John XXIII, inside which, in 1956, the parish church of Saint Paul was built.

Subsequently, schools were built on one side of the square. In the 70s a second urbanization of the district began, mostly on the initiative of some entrepreneurs, which led to the construction of taller buildings than the previous ones. In this period, a neighbourhood committee was also set up to safeguard spaces not yet affected by buildings; the committee's actions include the mobilization against the construction of the headquarters of the Asst (State Telephone Service Company), which was supposed to house numerous antennas, in the space where the T-Hotel now stands, and the cementing of the area where there is now the Park of the Music, which until the seventies housed an olive grove. Today the district is characterized by palaces and, in part, by villas with gardens.

In the neighbourhoods there is an elementary school, the middle school "Gaetano Cima" and the scientific high school "Michelangelo".

At the borders there is the Opera House, connected to the hub of the district by the modern Park of Music.

On the edge of the La Vega district, however, there is the headquarters of the province of Cagliari.

The European District is located on the border between the Genneruxi, Fonsarda, Giovanni XXIII Square, Cep and Marconi Avenue districts. Mainly Composed of large single and two-family single villas, it is a low-density neighbourhood with a high presence of public and private greenery.

In the area there is the convent of San Giuseppe, a former riding stable owned by the Mannatzu family, now used as a room for private ceremonies and the medieval church of Sant'Alenixedda, surrounded by a simple but elegant garden.

In the streets of the district there is a seat of the Cagliari Municipal Police, the Consulate of the Principality of Monaco and a seat of the Rotary Club.

There is a kindergarten and it is crossed by lines 1, 30 and 31 and by the Cagliari light rail.

It is one of the most popular neighbourhoods in real estate terms in the entire city of Cagliari.

The "Del Sole" district is a neighbourhood of Cagliari and it is used for simple residential usage especially with medium-level houses, 5-storey buildings (on average) and independent houses adjacent to the State Saltworks. It is adjacent to the La Palma district and is surrounded by the Poetto’s, San Bartolomeo’s, Medau su Cramu’s and Sant'Elia’s districts.

The buildings are modern and among the most important structures there are primary schools, the middle school "Colombo", two elementary schools, "Del Sole" and two kindergartens.

In the district there is the presence of an important attraction, the "City of Salt", where various events and theatrical performances are held, in the area of ​​the salt pans, which divides the Sun District from the Poetto.

The City of Salt is a real city museum and is directed, through the remains of buildings (such as the large chimney that fell in the seventies), towards the deepening of the salt extraction methods used in the modern era. Before becoming a residential neighbourhood, in fact, it was the workplace for the numerous people from Cagliari who went there to extract salt from the salt pans.

The Cep district was born in the mid-1960s thanks to a public housing project within the national framework of popular civil buildings.

Its center is five "skyscrapers" surrounded by a series of two-storey terraced houses, a soccer field and a basketball court, a film club and a church, originally led by the parish priest Don Aldo Matzeu, particularly loved by the inhabitants of the district, and to which a street and a bust were dedicated in front of the historic parish of the neighbourhood.

Today the CEP is equipped with all services: schools, kindergartens, pharmacies, markets and various opportunities for sports activities; the municipality has also arranged numerous green areas.

Castello (Casteddu de Susu in Sardinian, in Italian Castello Superiore) is the main of the four historic districts of the city of Cagliari. It rises in a predominant position, on a limestone hill, about one hundred meters above sea level.

The district was founded in the thirteenth century by the Pisans, who fortified it, providing it with walls, towers and bastions and transferred the headquarters of civil, military and religious power from the Judicial capital of Santa Igia, which they themselves had previously destroyed, decreeing the end of the Giudicato of Càlari.

Since then, under every domination, from the Pisan (XIII - XIV century), to the Aragonese-Spanish (XIV - XVIII century) and Piemontese (XVIII - XIX century), up to the second post-war period, the Castello district hosted the palaces of the power and noble residences, so as to identify with the city itself, which, in fact, in Sardinian is called Casteddu. The neighbourhood is still accessed through the ancient medieval gates, open in the walls that still surround most of the perimeter of the Castle, isolating it from the rest of the city.

The walls that run around the perimeter of the ancient Castello district include the Elephant tower and that of San Pancrazio.

The Castle currently houses important institutions, such as the Prefecture and the Council Hall of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari in the premises of the Royal palace, located in Palazzo Square.

The Parish of Castello is dedicated to Saint Cecilia and has its seat in the Cathedral Church, the main church of the Archdiocese of Cagliari, also in Palazzo Square.

The University of Cagliari also has its headquarters in the Castle, in the eighteenth-century building which houses the offices of the Rectorate.

The Castello district offers various reasons for a visit, both for the numerous historical and artistic testimonies that are found there, and for perhaps the most suggestive places, which are found along the narrow streets, the stairs, the small squares that open, like terraces , on beautiful views and overlook the dark hallways of the buildings, once sumptuous noble residences and today often with decadent charm.

By visiting the churches that are not even visible from the outside, you will notice interesting works of art inside them.

The Castello district is composed of civil and military architecture: fortifications such as towers, the Elephant Tower with the access door to the neighbourhood from Stampace; the Tower of Saint Pancrazio; the Tower of the Eagle, also from the beginning of the 14th century, incorporated today in the Boyl Palace, still constitutes an access to Castello from the south, from the Marina district, via the “Arcade of the Graces”.

In addition there are the Bastion of Saint Remy, which, through its monumental staircase, directly connects Castello and Villanova and incorporates the ancient Bastions of the Mint and Saint Caterina’s; The former Saint Carlo’s barracks, an area known as the "Jewish Ghetto"; the Buoncammino Prison, the district house of the city throughout the twentieth century, until the end of 2014; the historic buildings of the main Sardinian authorities and noble families, including: the Palazzo Regio; the former City Palace; The Archiepiscopal Palace; the “Palazzo delle Seziate”, the University Palace; the Conservatory of the Daughters of Providence, formerly a college for nobles and in the nineteenth century the seat of a charitable institution for orphans, its large neoclassical facade dominates the east side of  Independence Square, abandoned since the end of the twentieth century; the Boyl Palace.

There also are numerous elements that make up religious architecture: Square Palace, view of the Cathedral, with the neo-Romanesque facade and the imposing thirteenth-century bell tower. There are currently seven churches in the district: the cathedral church; four churches of Castello, built in the 16th century, which testify to the Aragonese Gothic style: the church of the Purissima; the church of Santa Lucia; the church of the Madonna della Speranza, noble chapel of the Aymerich marquis of Laconi; the church of Saint Maria del Monte, formerly the oratory of the oldest confraternity in Cagliari, dissolved in the 19th century, now the seat of the military Sovereign Order of Malta.

In Baroque style, however, we have: the basilica of Saint Croce, of the Order of Saints Maurizio and Lazzaro and the church of Saint Giuseppe Calasanzio, formerly the church of the Piarists.

Some remains of the church of the monastery of Saint Caterina are still preserved, destroyed at the end of the 19th century to make room for the present elementary school of the same name. Under the school building, the crypt of the monastery should still be found, where the nuns used to bury the deceased sisters. Not far away, under the pavement of the terrace of the bastion of Saint Caterina, following recent excavations for maintenance works, rooms have been found, probably referable to a church building dating back to the thirteenth century.

Finally, we recall the two vast complexes of the Jesuit College, at the Basilica of Holy Cross, an eighteenth-century building partly used today by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Cagliari and the “College of the Scolopi”, a nineteenth-century building now home to the State Art School.

Most of the museums of Castello and Cagliari itself are currently housed in the premises of the modern museum complex known as the Citadel of Museums; in this complex of constructions, built in the seventies of the twentieth century on the area that hosted the Royal Arsenal, there are:

    The Archaeological Museum.

    The National Picture Gallery.

    The Clemente Susini Museum of Anatomical Waxes.

    The "Cardu" Museum of Siamese Art.

Furthermore, the Citadel of Museums organizes interesting temporary exhibitions and other cultural events.

In addition, in the renovated rooms of Fossario street, near the Cathedral, there is the Museum of the Cathedral, which houses the Treasury of the Cathedral, while the Sardinian Luigi Piloni Collection is housed in the University Palace.

Enchanting and fascinating there are numerous streets and squares not to be missed, both for their historical-artistic value and because they are part of the famous shopping streets.

The Bonaria district is located on the homonymous hill and in its surroundings, in the south-eastern part of the town of Cagliari.

The neighbourhood is enclosed by Sonnino street, Grazia Deledda, Pessina and Pineta, by the New Median Scrolling Axis and, to the south, it extends to the sea (beach and small port of Su Siccu).

Human settlements in the Bonaria area date back to the Punic, as evidenced by the necropolis found on the hill, which was later reused by the Romans and then transformed into a quarry.

During the Middle Ages the church of San Bardilio was built, in Romanesque-Pisan and Italian Gothic style. The church doesn’t longer exist today, since, following abandonment and structural degradation, it collapsed in 1909 and was definitively demolished 20 years later.

In 1324, on the top of the Bonaria hill, the Aragoneses built a fortified citadel, which was the first capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia for two years and which was used for the siege of Castel di Castro (the current Castello district). At the time, the location was renamed Buen Ayre (good air), then Italianized in Bonaria.

The chapel of the fortified citadel was later transformed into a Marian sanctuary and next to the fourteenth-century church, still in existence, the Basilica of Our Lady of Bonaria was later built, which in addition to being the main Marian sanctuary of Sardinia, is also one of the monuments more impressive and spectacular not only in the neighbourhood but in the whole city of Cagliari. A beautiful park has also been created behind the Basilica and on the slopes of the Bonaria hill, also known as a panoramic point.

Next to it is the nineteenth-century monumental cemetery of Bonaria. Built on a part of the ancient Phoenician-Punic necropolis, it still houses the burials of numerous illustrious Cagliari’s citizens.

The residential part of the Bonaria district has developed around the hill and on part of it, becoming a densely populated but quiet and elegant area. The street that crosses the neighbourhood, Milano street, is composed of fine villas which, from the early 1900s, began to be the residences of the Cagliari upper middle class, and from more popular but well-built buildings, with architectural styles ranging from deco to the neo medieval, from the eclectic to the rationalist.

The houses are surrounded by gardens and large green spaces, crowded with tall trees (note is the beautiful flowering of the jacarandas in spring and autumn), creepers and flowers of all kinds.

The Bonaria district is also one of the economic, tourist and administrative centers of Cagliari: there are important banking and insurance offices, prestigious hotels, numerous bed & breakfasts, sports facilities and the Trade Fair District (Sardinia International Fair).

Finally, in “One hundred thousand’s” square, at the foot of the Bonaria staircase, the Campagna Amica market is held every Thursday, with the direct sale by the producer to the consumer of the agricultural and food and wine products from the countryside of the province of Cagliari.