From the panoramic point of the Citadel of Museums you can enjoy a breathtaking panorama that dominates the whole city at 360 degrees from a considerable height.

The Citadel of Museums, located in Arsenale’s Square, beyond Cristina’s Door, is one of the places not to be missed in the Castello district of Cagliari. It is a cultural complex built around 1950 following the decision to expand the seat of the Archaeological Museum and the Picture Gallery of the city and thus build a center dedicated to the arts and history of Sardinia.

Crossing the entrance threshold, the neoclassical door of the ancient Arsenal which dates back to the early 1800s, you enter a first group of buildings, including the former Saint Pancrazio’s prison and the gallery used to set up temporary exhibitions with a pentagonal room which houses the Anatomical Wax Museum "Clemente Susini" and the Department of Archaeological and Historical-Artistic Sciences of the University of Cagliari. In the central part of the building there is the National Archaeological Museum, then, continuing the walk through a staircase (or following the path accessible to the disabled) you arrive at a garden and at the entrance of the Municipal Museum of Siamese Art and the Picture Gallery which spread over three levels. Inside the Citadel there is also the Regional Ethnographic Museum "Luigi Cocco Collection".

The Saint’s Cross Bastion offers one of the most beautiful panoramic views of Cagliari from above; It is located in the Castello district, a few steps from the Elephant Tower. From this elegant terrace, in one of the highest areas of Cagliari, overlooking the Stampace district, the center of the city's nightlife, you can comfortably sip an aperitif contemplating the breathtaking spectacle of the city streets and the intense blue sea of the port. Just below, there are the famous multicultural shopping streets.

The Pulpit of Charles V, from the destroyed church of San Francesco di Stampace in Cagliari and currently in the entrance porch of the church of San Michele in the same neighbourhood, is an emblematic example of medieval art, in marble, in which classicistic forms still late Gothic styles are combined in amalgamation with mannerist ones.

In the Pulpit there is engraved the celebratory memory of the emperor Charles V, who, in 1535, chose Cagliari as the starting point of the expedition against the Barbary pirates of North Africa.

Nowadays the well is no more visible, as in the first half of the 19th century, within a general rearrangement of the square that gives access to Castello district, its entrance was lowered under the street, together with all the facilities like a noria (water wheel) and some shelters for the animals that activated it. Furthermore, an underground brick vaulted gallery was dug to let the animals reach the noria.

The well is still accessible through the gallery, whose entrance is close to the former National Archaeological Museum. During its exploration, the visitor can see a room on the left side, surmounted by a vault and characterized by the presence of a central pillar. It must have housed the animals that used to move the water wheel, as testified by the presence of iron rings on the walls and a drinking trough, probably consisting of a reused Roman sarcophagus.

Walking through the gallery for about 30 metres, the visitor reaches the well, covered by a brick vault with two holes to let the noria lift the water. Nowadays, only a few traces of the water wheel are visible. The square-shaped well, whose sides are 6x6 metres long in the first part and 4x5 metres long in the last one, runs down for 77 metres to the aquifer, from where it stretches underground for other 11 metres.

Area where taxis wait to be hired.

Area where taxis wait to be hired.

Area where taxis wait to be hired.

Area where taxis wait to be hired.

Area where taxis wait to be hired.

The port of Cagliari, located just 11 miles from the Gibraltar-Suez section, represents one of the main hubs for transhipment activities in the western Mediterranean. It is divided into three areas: the historic port, which is spread over 5,800 meters of quay and has a vocation for commercial traffic, Ro-Ro, passenger and cruise ships (with a dedicated terminal); the canal port, which stretches over 1,600 meters and offers five berths for transhipment and Ro-Ro traffic. In the same area, in Sarroch - Porto Foxi, there are the petrochemical - oil berths with moorings for seventeen ships, serving one of the most important national refineries.

The passenger terminal is located about 400 meters from the purely port area (sterile), in the area of via Roma. In the sterile area there is a BAR, a ticket office for commercial vehicles and toilets. For passengers, in the immediate vicinity of the port, there are the other ticket offices.

The nearest intermodal center is located in Piazza Matteotti, about three minutes away by feet, where there are: the ARST bus station, the railway station, the terminus and stops of several CTM city buses, a Shuttle Bus connects all ships arriving and departing with the port entrance.