Sardinian-Piedmontese

The architectural factories of the Savoy age

Some important long-standing city factories mark the moment of Sardinia's transition from the Spanish royals to the Savoy rulers.

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Late Baroque architecture

The entire course of the 18th century was characterized by the activity of Piedmontese architects and military engineers, who accelerated sacred and civil construction in a baroque sense, especially in the most important...

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Neoclassical architecture

The process of alignment with the dominant trends in the environments of Italian artistic culture intensified in the 19th century with the work of architects who were native to the island but trained in Turin, aware of t...

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Gaetano Cima

In the history of Sardinian architecture, the architect Gaetano Cima occupies an absolutely important place, as evidenced by the fact that he effectively played a teaching role in the second half of the nineteenth centur...

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Civil and military architecture

Among the territorial planning interventions adopted by the Savoy government, there is also the founding of three cities from scratch, Carloforte and La Maddalena in the 18th century and Longon Sardo (later Santa Teresa...

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Military engineers

The definitive passage of Sardinia to Savoy in 1718 does not mark an interruption of the factories in progress, marked by the adherence to the late Baroque language, destined to last until the end of the century in a ser...

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