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The Palazzo Valdés occupies a large sloping area between Viale Regina Elena, Piazza Marghinotti and Via Sulis, already occupied by the Valdés “osteria”, a typical accommodation for men and animals in the nineteenth-century city.
The construction was built in two stages without too many stylistic gaps, even if the two parts are distinctly different. The first block is due to the design of the engineer Nicolò Mura and was built between 1901 and 1915, overlooking the side of the Bastion of Saint Remy. The base is made of granite and limestone, while the decorative part is made of terracotta. The extension, upstream of the first one, was built on a design by the engineer Riccardo Simonetti, dating back to 1926, and stands out for its enveloping front up to the prospectus on Piazza Marghinotti. The exuberant decoration is made of colored cement grit, but the side along Via Sulis, less important, has consequently less rich terracotta ornaments. The building was seriously damaged by air strikes in 1943 and was faithfully restored after the war.
History of studies
A review of the studies can be found in the bibliography relating to the fact sheet in the volume of the “History of Art in Sardinia” on nineteenth-century architecture (2001).
Bibliography by
G. Loddo, Cagliari. Architecture from 1900 to 1945, Cagliari, Coedisar, 1999, p. 26;
F. Masala, Architecture from the Unification of Italy to the End of the 20th Century. Nuoro, Ilisso, 2001, sheet 34.
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Civil architecture
Province: Cagliari
Common: Cagliari
Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia
POSTAL CODE: 09124
Address: via S. Giovanni, 1
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Author : Circolo Artistico Marghinotti <Cagliari>
Year : 1891
Year : 1834
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