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Semoleria Italiana is located in the industrial area O of Cagliari on the spaces of the San Pietro salt pans, reclaimed in the early twentieth century. It is part of the vast industrial complex of the Molini Exercise Company, built in 1905 on a design by the engineer Carlo Bagnasco, the first Cagliari building made of reinforced concrete by the company of a Sardinian man transplanted to Turin, Giovanni Antonio Porcheddu, holder of the patent for the Hennebique construction system for Italy. The buildings were partially demolished in 2005, but fortunately the unique portal remains.
This consists of pillars covered with faux ashlar bands, which hold an arch inside which we read “SEMOLERIA ITALIANA”, surmounted by a cartouche, where you can read the date 1905. It is completed by two large neomanerist-style volutes from which ears are born with a clear reference to the production of the plant.
History of studies
A review of 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
F. Masala, Architecture from the Unification of Italy to the end of the 1900s. Nuoro, Ilisso, 2001, sheet 44;
F. Masala, Paper Architectures. Projects for Cagliari (1800-1945), Cagliari, AM&D, 2002.
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Province: Cagliari
Common: Cagliari
Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia
POSTAL CODE: 09123
Address: viale la Plaia, 13
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Year : 1986
Year : 1986
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