Travel Reference
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The monumental stairway that ascends from busy Piazza Costituzione to Bastione San
Remy is the most impressive way to reach Il Castello; save your legs by taking the panor-
amic elevator. A mix of neoclassical and Liberty styles, the lookout affords sweeping
views over Cagliari's higgledy-piggledy rooftops to the glittering Mediterranean.
Pinacoteca Nazionale
ART GALLERY
(
www.pinacoteca.cagliari.beniculturali.it
;
Piazza dell' Arsenale; adult/reduced €3/1.50; 9am-8pm Tue-
Sun)
Above and behind the archaeological museum, this gallery contains a prized
collection of 15th- to 17th-century art, including four outstanding works by Pietro Cavaro,
father of the so-called Stampace school and arguably Sardinia's most important artist.
Orto Botanico
(Viale Sant'Ignazio da Laconi 11; adult/reduced €4/2; 8.30am-6pm Mon-Sat)
Slightly downhill
from the amphitheatre is one of Italy's most famous botanical gardens, bristling with palm
trees, cacti, ficus trees and local carobs and oaks. Ancient ruins tastefully litter the gar-
dens.
GARDEN
Galleria Comunale d'Arte
(
www.galleriacomunalecagliari.it
; Viale San Vincenzo 2; adult/reduced €6/2.60; 10am-8pm Wed-Mon,
garden 6am-11pm summer, 7am-8pm winter)
Housed in a neoclassical villa north of Il Castello,
this gallery zooms in on modern Sardinian art, including works by island artists such as
Tarquinio Sini (1891-1943). There are terrific views of Cagliari's skyline from the palm-
dotted
garden
outside.
ART GALLERY
Chiesa di San Michele
(Via Ospedale 2; 8am-11am & 6-9pm Mon-Sat, 8am-noon & 7-9pm Sun)
This 16th-century church
is celebrated for its lavish 18th-century rococo decor. In the atrium note the four-
columned pulpit from which the Spanish emperor Carlos V is said to have delivered a stir-
ring speech before setting off on a fruitless campaign against Arab corsairs in Tunisia.
CHURCH
Basilica di San Saturnino
CHURCH
