City tour open bus to discover the most striking and characteristic places of Cagliari.

A unique and fun one-hour tour to visit the spectacular and characteristics sites that make Cagliari one of the most beautiful and welcoming cities in the Mediterranean.

From the comfort of your seat, you will see the monuments and natural and architectural delights of the city from a different perspective, thanks to the unusual shape and size of the bus that can even drive through the walls and into the ancient city.

Each seat is fitted with highly technological and multilingual audio system that will accompany you during your guided visit.

Through the headphones, you will be informed all about the history and origins of the city’s most important historical, cultural and social sites with details of its museums, architecture, art and shopping.

This is particularly interesting itinerary that will introduce you to and help you discover the ancient and more recent history of this delightful Mediterranean capital.

Accessible for the disabled by reservation.

Located in Castello district, the Citadel of Museums houses some of the most important artistic treasures of the city, such as the Archaelogical Museum and the National Art Gallery.

In the district of "Castello", between "Porta Cristina" and the Independence Square, there is the ancient home of the Royal Arsenal, that is nowadays home of the most 'important artistic treasures of the city gathered in the museum collections of the National Archaeological Museum and the National Art Gallery. Here, through bronzetti and Sardinian and Catalan altarpieces of the fifteenth, they trace the history of the island.

The complex is also home of Luigi Cocco Collection (Ethnographic Museum), Anatomical Waxes Collection and of Siamese Museum, too.

The Monumental Cemetery of Bonaria is located close to the hill of the same name, on an area formerly used as a necropolis already during the Punic-Roman and early Christian ages of the city .

Near the main entrance of the cemetery, until the beginning of the 20th century, there was the Benedictine church of Santa Maria de Portu (later of S.Bardilio) built in the eleventh century, with following transformations. The Cemetery of Bonaria was designed by Captain Luigi Damiano, divided in four regular squares, and inaugurated on the 1st of January 1829. 

In the earliest times in Cagliari there was the habit to bury in churches or in areas immediately adjacent , often with significant hygienic problems .

Already during the cholera epidemic of 1816 it was necessary to find some emergency areas adjacent to the city for use as a burial place , so the need for a large town cemetery was particularly felt . Just thirty years after its inauguration, the cemetery was already inadequate, consequently it was commissioned  to the architect Gaetano Cima the  design of a first extension , which was followed by others that brought the area to reach the top of the hill. A special area was set  for non-Catholics , British, French, German Protestants and Anglicans .

Today the cemetery of Bonaria is a large outdoor art gallery that collects sculptures by artists from Sardinia and from all over the Country operating in Cagliari ( Fadda , Sartorio , Sarrocchi Galavoni ) from the second half of the nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century . In this unique art gallery it is possible to admire  a peculiar variety of styles, from neoclassicism to realism , symbolism and art nouveau . This  so varied artistic production reflects the taste of the city of the late nineteenth century , culturally vibrant and economically active for the presence of businessmen from the north of Italy and from abroad.

The Dominicans arrived in Cagliari in 1254 and they formed a community in the Villanova district: here they built a convent church at the same point where there was originally an ancient Benedictine church dedicated to Sant'Anna, later incorporated into the cloister.

First dedicated to Sant'Anna, the structure was later named "Convento of Castel di Castro".

During the Aragonese domination the building was rebuilt in Gothic-Catalan style, at the expense of the rulers of Aragon, and the King of Spain Charles V granted him the title of Royal Convent.

In 1943, following the bombing of the city, the structure was almost completely destroyed.

The church was built in the fifteenth century as a small oratory, due to a vow made in Santa Rosalia by the city authorities on the occasion of the recurring plagues. Located in the upper part of the Marina district, near Piazza Costituzione, it has a facade inspired by the lines of the Piedmontese baroque with frames, gables and pilasters arranged on two orders. Elegant niches in the upper part of the facade host the statues of the Franciscan saints Bonaventura and Antonio da Padova. The interior of the church has a single barrel vaulted nave, an octagonal dome on the presbytery and four chapels on each side. In the second chapel on the right from the entrance, the relics of San Salvatore da Horta from 1844 to 1931 have been preserved, then placed in the main altar, renovated for the occasion by the sculptor Andrea Usai. For this reason the church is also known with the name of San Salvatore, one of the most dear saints and venerated by the Sardinians.

The Church of Santa Rosalia is located in the municipality of Pirri, in a small square that connects via Riva Villasanta with via Santa Maria Chiara. Its construction dates back to 1756 and is due to the Reverend Gerolamo Simoni who improved the building with the construction of some side chapels. In 1911 the monument became a hospital during the cholera epidemic and was reopened to the public in 1983. The single-nave interior hosts an ancient statue of the saint while the external facade has a simple portal surmounted by a lunette and a bell tower sailing.