A journey through the history, traditions, and culture of the country.
The "Open Monuments" event will take place in San Gavino Monreale until Sunday 17 May and there will be many sites to visit. told as always by school children and volunteers from the Campidano center.
A great collective effort that will transform the town into a widespread museum capable of intertwining art, spirituality, industrial archaeology, and civic participation.
It will be possible to visit the Church of San Gavino Martire, built by Pisan craftsmen in 1347 at the beginning of the Giudicato of Mariano IV of Arborea, which will reopen to the public pending future management.
And then there's the Nuccio Delunas Football Museum, created to preserve and promote the sporting legacy of San Gavino Monreale and its stars. The museum pays homage to Nuccio Delunas, a historic figure in San Gavino Monreale's sport: the memorabilia was donated by his son Corrado, a great athlete and author of excellent books on the history of Cagliari football.
Don't miss the Due Fonderie Museum. Visits to the historic foundry, still in operation, are fascinating, led by the factory staff. Among the most iconic sites is the Casa Museo Dona Maxima, a 16th-century manor house built by the Spanish feudal lords of Quirra.
The C'ENTRO at Via Santa Croce 11 hosts the exhibition "FRAME" by Giacomo Putzu, a visual artist and active member of the association. The works on display, created using mixed media, reinterpret cinema faces and icons in a pictorial way, transforming cult stills into emotionally charged paintings.
You can also visit the Faustino Onnis multimedia library, the church of Santa Chiara Vergine, the church of Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù (Via Roma 255; visits organized by the Youth Council ), the Historical Archives of the Municipality of San Gavino, the Mereu house which will host a collective art exhibition curated by Alessandra Sorcinelli, the Chiara Atzori House Museum in Via Diaz, the municipal theater and the foundry which will be open on Sundays from 9 a.m. onwards. This factory It was designed in 1930 following the establishment of the "Italian Lead Company," and was built right here because the town had a railway station that could transport lead processing to the port of Cagliari. It was inaugurated two years later and, at the time, was the largest in Europe.
Ample space will also be given to contemporary art and the city's cultural spaces.
The Giuseppe Floris Serra Art Gallery preserves and showcases the work of the Sangavino artist, offering an immersive journey dedicated to the "Gocismo" technique, based on the use of tiny drops of paint. The art gallery aims to be a meeting place for art, memory, and local identity. Among the spaces featured is Casa Mereu, an elegant early 20th-century building constructed of adobe bricks and featuring Art Nouveau decorative elements, a testament to the town's noble architecture. The original owner's former medical clinic is also preserved inside.
