Cagliari City

Cagliari city

Cagliari is a municipality, capital of the autonomous region of Sardinia and main center of its metropolitan city; it includes, beyond the capital and its conurbation of municipalities, also several hinterland cities.

It is opened on the Gulf of Cagliari and surrounded by the “Sette Fratelli” and “Capoterra” mountains, and by the Campidano plain. The enormous naturalistic and artistic heritage of Cagliari is made even more spectacular and impressive if admired from Monte Urpinu, from where you can also see the two lagoons, both of brackish and fresh water, located near the city. The lagoons are rich in birdlife, including pink flamingos.

Cagliari is considered the center of political, economic, tourist and cultural life of the whole Sardinia. A city in turmoil, who knows how to surprise visitors with the beauty of its historical glimpses and its views.

Archiepiscopal seat, university location and city with thousands of years of history, it is the island’s administrative center. As a matter of fact it was, under the name of Caralis, capital of the province of “Sardinia et Corsica”, during the Roman period and later capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1324 1720, and then from 1798 to 1814. Its harbor is classified as “international” thanks to its importance; it carries out commercial, industrial and tourist functions and services for passengers.

Rich in history, it is the capital of the beautiful island of Sardinia.

Built on seven hills like Rome, its territory is home to traces of influence and domination of the Phoenicians, the Carthaginians and the Romans, and it jealously guards the remains of the fortifications, built by the Pisans between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (the Elephant Tower and the Eagle Tower). Cagliari is a city for young people, but rich in tradition. It boasts many parks, towers, churches and museums, including the renowned National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari, the most important in the world for the finds of Nuraghic.

Over the centuries, Cagliari has been dominated by different populations that left their mark, changing the name of the city itself: it was called Krly by the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, Càralis by the Romans, Kastrum Karalis by the Pisans and Castel de Caller by the Spaniards, until it assumed its present name of Cagliari, Casteddu in Sardinian. Each population left a trace, be it a fortified building, a necropolis, a lookout tower on the sea or a monument, that are a must-see for history and architecture lovers.