Thirty-one euros and 57 cents a day. This applies to the coffers of the Municipality of Cagliari 's main monuments that can be visited for a fee, whether incomplete or complete.

Grotta della Vipera, Roman Amphitheater, Crypt of Santa Restituta, Tower of the Elephant and Covered Walk – Galleria dello Sperone : this is the list of sites for which the Società Orientare Srl, which manages them (until new assignment), has paid the money collected from ticket sales to the town hall. The total sum is 10,418 euros for the period from 27 August to 31 October: the figures are reported in the document of the Culture Department which has just been approved, which confiscates the money and inserts it in the budget of Palazzo Bacaredda.

A period of not very high season, the one taken into consideration, but still one of those that in the statements to the press were celebrated with slogans such as "boom in attendance" for the capital of Sardinia. Perhaps, however, tourists have preferred the sea to places of culture. Because the bill is soon done. In 66 days, tickets worth 2,083 euros were sold for each monument: 31.56 euros a day, this is the average.

Some will have attracted more visitors than others. At what price? Entering the Amphitheater and, at the end, walking a few meters on a walkway costs 3 euros. But very few shell out for it, it seems.

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)