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ANTIQUARIUM OF ARBOREA IN ORISTANO
The Antiquarium of Arborea, founded in 1938, thanks to the acquisition, by the then mayor of Oristano, of the prestigious Pischedda collection - the largest private collection of antiquities in Sardinia - is housed in the rooms of the eighteenth-cent...
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ORISTANO MONASTIC COMPLEX OF THE POOR CLARES
On Via Garibaldi stands one of the most interesting monuments in Oristano, the monastic complex of the Poor Clares, which the judge Peter III of Arborea had built. The convent, erected at the beginning of the fourteenth century, is still active today...
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ORISTANO HOUSE OF ELEONORA D'ARBOREA
The so-called house of Eleonora d'Arborea, situated on the old Via Parpaglia, a few metres from the S. Cristoforo Tower, is one of the most interesting examples of sixteenth-century domestic building in the town of Oristano. The building, characteris...
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CATHEDRAL OF ORISTANO
One of the most important monuments on the island, thanks to its composite architecture, the cathedral of Oristano, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin of the Assumption rises majestically in peaceful Piazza Duomo, flanked by a superb octagonal campanile...
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ORISTANO CHURCH OF S. FRANCESCO
Built on the ruins of a previous medieval building - a Basilian coenobium - between 1841 and 1847, to the design of the famous Cagliari architect Gaetano Cima, the neo-Classic Church of S. Francesco has a characteristic pronaos, supported by four sle...
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ORISTANO S. CRISTOFORO TOWER
The massive S. Cristoforo Tower, also known as the Mariano II Tower, after the Arborea Judge that had it built, soars in Piazza Roma, at Oristano. The tower, superb testimony to the medieval defensive walls - demolished at the end of the nineteenth c...
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ORISTANO PIAZZA ELEONORA D'ARBOREA
The most popular meeting place in Oristano, central Piazza Eleonora d'Arborea has an elongated shape, where the marble monument in the middle dedicated to the eponymous, celebrated woman judge, stands out. The statue of Eleonora, sculpted by the Flor...
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ORISTANO PALAZZO SIVIERO-ARCAIS
Returned to its original splendour by recent restoration, the Palazzo Arcais in Oristano is an admirable example of civic architecture, dating from the second half of the eighteenth century. Built for Francesco Maria Nurra, knight of King Charles Emm...
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ORISTANO CHURCH OF MOUNT CARMEL
Designed by the famous architect Giuseppe Viana, and built between 1766 and 1785, the monastic complex of Mount Carmel, at Oristano, is one of the most important and coherent achievements of Piedmontese-Baroque architecture in Sardinia. The elegant a...
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CRAFT WORK OF ORISTANO
The craft work of Oristano, boasting a very long tradition, still today preserves unchanged almost millenary production techniques and ornamental motifs, making the goods very high quality. Ceramic production is remarkably important, the local master...
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CHURCH OF S. EFISIO AT ORISTANO
The Church of S. Efisio, built during the seventeenth century with material from the ruins of Tharros, was erected, according to local tradition, by the inhabitants themselves of the populous quarter of the same name - in the past called Su Brugu - s...
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CHURCH OF S. MARTINO AT ORISTANO
At Oristano, on Viale S. Martino, stands the extramural church of the same name, its name appearing for the first time in a thirteenth-century document. The church, restructured several times over the centuries, preserves its beautiful, late-Gothic a...
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GASTRONOMY OF ORISTANO
The expression of a gentle and at the same time wild land, where farmers, shepherds and fishermen live and work together, the gastronomy of Oristano offers an abundance and variety of products. A cuisine which is the fruit of clever combinations of t...
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PORTIXEDDA TOWER OF ORISTANO
The large ruined Portixedda Tower, "small gate", integral part of the old defensive walls of Oristano, rises massive and austere between Via Mazzini and Piazza Mariano. The fortification, the work of Spanish masons in the second half of the fifteenth...
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