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qualities of light ness and purity of fountain, once the source of VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
form. The only intact part of the most of Sassari’s water supply.
earlier church is the 13th-century Practical Information
façade, decorated with small P Corso Vittorio Emanuele Road map B2. * 120,000.
columns and capitals and pierced The city’s main street crosses n Palazzo di Cittá, V.S Satta 13.
by a lovely 15th-century rose the heart of the old town and 079 200 8072. _ last Sun of
window. The Gothic interior, once connects Piazza Sant’Antonio month: Antiques Show in Piazza
austere, has been spoiled by the and Piazza Cavallino. The Corso Santa Caterina; Easter Week:
heavy-handed Baroque decoration is lined with 19th-century Maggio Sassarese; penultimate
and altars; yet the original side houses and 16th-century Sun in May: Cavalcata Sarda; 14
Aug: Faradda de li Candareri.
chapels are intact, each dedicated Aragonese buildings, and you ∑ turismosassari.it
to a craftsmen’s guild as a remin- can often catch a glimpse of
der of the social role the church courtyards and interiors that Transport
played in the community. To this testify to their former splendour. @ £
day, on 14 August, the date of the This is Sassari’s main shopping
De li Candareri festivities, the votive street, with shops of all kinds,
candles donated by the various from clothing to ironmongery. the brotherhood responsible for
guilds are carried here in proces- building the church. The Latin
sion from the Chiesa del Rosario. R Sant’Antonio Abate cross interior boasts one of
The cloister is partly walled in Piazza Sant’Antonio. Open 7–10am the most elegant high altars
but can still be visited. It contains daily, 4:30–7:30pm Sat. in Sassari, which bears a carved
the 14th-century Dating from the early 1700s, and gilded wooden altarpiece.
granite stone the stately Baroque façade The panels were executed in
Brigliadore of this church, with the late 1700s by the Genoese
its simple elegance, painter Bartolomeo Augusto.
dominates The church stands in Piazza
the tree-lined Sant’Antonio, once the site of the
square at old northern gate of the same
the end of name, and formerly the hub of
Corso Trinità. the city’s commercial and political
The upper part life. The only vestiges of the past
of the portal are a part of the medieval city
still bears the walls, and a battlemented tower
The church of Santa Maria di Betlem in Sassari emblem of to the left of the church.

Sassari Sant’Antonio VIA SAFFI del Rosello ROSELLO PONTE
Fontana
Abate
1 Duomo CORSO TRINITÀ VIALE S. FRANCESCO
PIAZZA
2 Santa Maria di Betlem Stazione SANT‘ANTONIO ROSELLO
PORTA
3 Corso Vittorio Emanuele Trenitalia VIA L AM ARMORA
4 Sant’Antonio Abate STAZIONE C. VITTORIO EMANUELE
PIAZZA
VI A LE TRI E S T E V IAL E M AM E L I
5 Fontana del Rosello V I A SANT’APPOLLINARE PIAZZA VI AL E UM B ER TO VI ALE CA P R ER A
TOLA
6 Palazzo di Città V. XXV APRILE CORSO VICO Palazzo
VIA MERCATO
7 Chiesa di Santa Caterina MAZZOTTI di Città VI A PRIN CI PE S S A I OL A N D A
PIAZZA
8 Piazza d’Italia Autostazione OLD TOWN PIAZZA
AZUNI
9 Museo Archeologico Santa Maria Duomo Chiesa di PIAZZA
di Betlem
Santa Caterina
Nazionale PIAZZA VIA MADDA L E NA VIA TUR R I TA N A CASTELLO Palazzo della V IA LE T RE N T O
Provincia
V IA DE I G R E MI S. MARIA VIA COPPINO Università PIAZZA VIA BRIGATA SÁSSARI Palazzo D’ITALIA
VIA DELLE
CONCE
UNIVERSITÀ
PIAZZA
Giardini
Giordano
V I A SANT’A NN A C O RS O A N GIO I Púbblici GARIBALDI VIA M ANN O V IA R OM A
EMICICLO
VIA CA
VIA ROLANDO VIA F. PORCELLANA V IA M UR O N I E P I AZZ A D’ AM I VIA E COSTA V I A A S PR O NI Archeologico
San Pietro VIALE MANCINI VIA MAZZINI VOUR V I A LE UMBER T O
in Silki VIA SARDEGNA
Museo
V IALE ITA L IA
Nazionale
COR SO MARG H ER ITA DI SAV O IA
VIA ZANFARINO TOR RE S
0 metres 300 V I A GIO VA NN I A ME N D OL A VIA DE I M IL L V I A PAS QU AL I PAO LI V IA AR MAN DO D I A Z
V IA
V IA A . DE F F ENU VIA GALILEO GALILEI
0 yards 300 VI A A LG HE R O
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