Alghero, Antoine De Saint-Exupèry Museum - MASE

The exhibition covers the entire life of the writer Antoine De Saint-Exupéry and focuses on the period of his stay in Alghero. In the rooms and display cases you can admire all the first editions of the author's books, themed installations, works of art, objects, memorabilia and period documents.
To accompany you on the journey you will find information panels and photos taken in Alghero by John Phillips in 1944.
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry lived in Alghero from May 1944 to July of the same year in the Bay of Porto Conte, in a villa located on a slight hill in front of the New Tower, built in 1572. As a pilot, he flew for the Allied American air forces stationed at the Fertilia military base, where he was entrusted with reconnaissance flights on the coast of France to locate and photograph German outposts.
Author of masterpieces such as The Little Prince, the most read book in the history of literature after the Bible and the Quran, he spent the last significant months of his life in the city, also celebrating his last birthday.
Here the aviator poet, cradled by the waves of the sea, wrote most of the novel The Citadel and his last text entitled Letter to an American. During his stay at Alghero airport, John Phillips, an internationally renowned photo reporter for the famous American magazine Life, produced a photo shoot on the writer who immortalized the last moments of his life. Antoine De Saint-Exupéry disappeared forever from the skies of France on July 31, 1944, after taking off from Bastia at Borgo airport. (descriptive text from the Porto Conte Park site)

Why is it important to visit it
A journey through the life and works of the writer-aviator, universally known for his best-known literary work: “The Little Prince”, to discover his particular relationship with the people and places of the Porto Conte Park.
The location of the museum, in the suggestive coastal tower of Porto Conte, makes the visit even more exciting.

Tag

Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection

Content type: History

Usability: Open

Province: Sassari

Common: Alghero

Macro Territorial Area: Northern Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 07041

Address: via Porto Conte, s.n.c. (Torre di Porto Conte) - località Porto Conte

Telephone: +39 331 3400862 +39 079 945005

E-mail: info@parcodiportoconte.it

Website: www.algheroparks.it/vivi-i-parchi/museo-antoine-de-saint-exupéry

Facebook: www.facebook.com/parcodiportoconte

Twitter: twitter.com/parcoportoconte

Instagram: www.instagram.com/parco_di_porto_conte

October - April

Friday - Saturday - Sunday

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Friday - Saturday - Sunday

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Maggio - September

Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

3:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Information on tickets and access: Pets are not allowed to enter. For always updated information on the cost of tickets, and on the various personalized cumulative offers, it is advisable to visit the operator's website.

Access mode: For a fee

Other services: WiFi.

Update

24/1/2025 - 13:23

Services

Teaching room