Promoted by Monsignor Ernesto Maria Piovella, archbishop of Cagliari from 1920 to 1949, the town's Via Crucis consists of fourteen artistic bas-reliefs on iron plates, placed on the facades of churches and palaces of the historic districts of Marina, Villanova, Castello and Stampace.


The fourteen stations:

I: Christ sentenced to death.
Church of S. Rosalia / Sanctuary of S. Salvatore da Horta
Turin Street

II: Christ loaded with the cross.
Church of S. Giacomo
S. Giacomo square

III: Christ falls for the first time under the cross.
Missing original *

IV: Christ meets the mother.
Church of S. Cesello
S. Giovanni Street

V: Christ helped by S. Simone di Cirene.
Church of S. Mauro
S. Giovanni Street

VI: St. Veronica cleanses the face of Christ.
Palace of the Conservatory of Providence
Independence square

VII: Christ falls for the second time under the cross.
Archbishop's Palace
Palazzo square

VIII: Christ warns the women of Jerusalem.
Church of S. Croce
S. Croce square

IX: Christ falls for the third time under the cross.
Church of S. Giuseppe
S. Giuseppe square

X: Christ stripped of his clothes.
Church Madonna della Pietà / Monastery of the Holy Sepulchre
Capuchin Nuns ladders

XI: Christ nailed to the cross.
Missing original **

XII: Christ died on the cross.
Church of S. Agostino
Baylle Street

XIII: Christ deposed from the cross.
Church of S. Sepolcro
S. Sepolcro Square

XIV: Body of Christ deposited in the Sepulchre.
Church of S. Rosalia / Sanctuary of S. Salvatore da Horta
Turin Street


Notes:
* Originally located on the facade of the church of S. Domenico, destroyed by bombing in 1943. In the 1950s it was replaced by a walled reproduction in a building in front of the church. Disappeared in the late seventies.
** Originally located on the facade of the church of S. Anna. It was probably destroyed by the bombings of 1943, in the fifties it was replaced by a reproduction, visible on the corner between Azuni street and S. Efisio street.