A rich program of guided visits to sites, churches, museums, palaces and itineraries.

The city of Cagliari welcomes the 25th edition of Monumenti Aperti on 13 and 14 November, an initiative organized by Imago Mundi and chaired by Massimiliano Messina. A weekend to get to know well-known and lesser-known places in the company of students, guides and volunteers.

The event was presented this morning in the council chamber of the municipality, attended by the president of the council Edoardo Tocco, the councilors for tourism Alessandro Sorgia and education Rita Dedola and the regional director of museums in Sardinia, Francesco Muscolino.

Twenty proposals, five historical-artistic and naturalistic itineraries, 29 schools and 23 associations involved.

Three new features: the Garden of the Faculty of Political Sciences which opens to the public for the first time; the Muacc-University Museum of Contemporary Arts and Cultures, the new cultural institution founded within the University which houses a collection of Italo Antico; Parco Nervi, the green area equipped on the seafront for leisure and sport with the homonymous Pavilion, evidence of industrial archeology recently returned to the city.

"An event that gives prestige to the city - said the commissioner Sorgia - we return in presence but in a reduced form and with the obligation to book visits to avoid gatherings".

There are still many proposals to discover the Sardinian capital in its architectural and historical stratification: the National Archaeological Museum, which houses the collection, unique in the world, of bronze statues, the so-called bronzes, or the sculptures of Mont 'e Prama. Again: Tuvixeddu, the largest Punic-Roman necropolis in the Mediterranean, and the Basilica of San Saturnino, one of the most significant buildings in the Mediterranean area.

"Along the way there is also the Crypt of Santa Restituta where, in 1997, the event took place, thanks to a group of young pioneers, which over the years has taken on a regional and national character", recalled Massimiliano Messina.