Cagliari urban development

Cagliari is a really old town – one of the oldest in the Mediterranean sea!

Its origin dates back about 3000 years ago.

Liceo Scientifico Michelangelo - Cagliari

Phoenician Period

An important event was the arrival of

Phoenician people who chose Sardinia

as a port for their trade. Roman PeriodIn 238 B.C. the Romans conquered Sardinia. The

Roman rule lasted for about seven centuries.Pisan Period

In 1215 the

Pisans built a

fortified town,

completed in

1216.

Aragonese PeriodA hundred year had not passed, when another domination came: the Aragonese, who, with the help of the Pope, conquered Sardinia.

The Piedmont ReignIn 1718, Cagliari and Sardinia came under the House of Savoy and were included in the Piedmont kingdom, which from that moment took the name of Sardinian-Piedmont kingdom.

Comenius project 2009-2011

This is the city of Cagliari today, but sixty years ago it wasn’t so…

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…in fact after the bombings during the World War 2 it was more similar to this.

After the war, inhabitants of Cagliari rebounded and

the city developed around the historical districts of

Castello, Villanova, Stampace and Marina.

Historical districts

receive today the

highest proportion of

foreigners in Cagliari.Stampace, built in the west of Castello, is the

very heart of Cagliari, because, from its expansion, the modern suburbs

developed. The productive activities of the city are centered inside this district.

This is a new map of Cagliari: it is notable that the 15% of the population lives into Is Mirrionis and Sant’Alenixedda districts.

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