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Covered Walkway and Sperone Gallery
09100 Cagliari
This element belongs to the categories: Archaeological areas, Collections and permanent exhibitions, Museums
Opening hours:
The Covered Walkway and the Sperone Gallery archaeological path will be closed to the public from September 30th to November 6th.
Contacts:
Covered Walkway
- http://sistemamuseale.museicivicicagliari.it/prenotazione-passeggiata-coperta/
Sperone Gallery (archaeological path)
- (phone) +39 366 2562826
- (e-mail) [email protected]
Prices:
Tickets for the Covered Walkway and the Sperone Gallery:
- full ticket: 3 euro;
- reduced-price ticket: 2 euro (students up to the age of 26, visitors over 65 years old, groups at least of 15 people and Cagliari Botanical Garden ticket holders);
- reduced-price ticket: 1 euro for students groups
-3 euro additional cost for guided tours
Combined ticket (without temporarily exhibition at the Civic Museums):
€ 15,00 Civic Museums and Cultural Sites (Roman Amphitheatre, Crypt of Santa Restituta, the Viper's Cave, Elephant Tower, Covered Walkway and Sperone Gallery) valid for 2 weeks.
€ 12,00 Civic Museums and Cultural Sites (Roman Amphitheatre, Crypt of Santa Restituta, the Viper's Cave, Elephant Tower, Covered Walkway and Sperone Gallery) valid for 2 weeks and only for residents in the Metropolitan Area of Cagliari.
The Covered Walkway leads to the Sperone Gallery, a part of the structures built by the architect and military engineer Rocco Cappellino to protect Cagliari from 16th-century Muslim military incursions. Convened by Charles V, Cappellino created the first modern defence project in Sardinia, made up of towers, ramparts, fortified cities and castles.
The Gallery was also built with the aim of embellishing the buildings of the Bastion, which had the front to the sea. Its internal environment is called "vaulted casemate" and it was used for military usage. It also took the name of "Cannoniera" because it placed a cannon whose shot crossed with that of the cannon positioned in the Bastion of the Balice, which is located in University street. This new defensive technique served to protect the “Porta dei Due Leoni”, the entrance to the gallery, which was the only access from the south to the fortified city.
Inside the Gallery there also was an access road that led the condemned to death to Piazza Martiri.
One of the areas was used as a prison. In another room there was, however, a public cistern that distributed water in the Castello area.
An internal part of the gallery was also used as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War.
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