Sassari

Sassari (in Sassarese and Italian: Sassari; in Sardinian language : Tathari or Tattari) is a Italian city of approximately 129 000 inhabitants, the second city of the Sardinia. It is the chief town of the province of the even name in the North-West of the Sardinia.
It has also a university re-elected, in particular for the right, and a very old history with artistic monuments and treasures, in particular of the churches. Its principal dialect (the sassarese), a speech Tuscan, very near to the Corsica spoken with Sartène, is very different from the language Sarde.
The city is also famous for the Faradda di Li candareri (Descent of the candlesticks), a religious procession which is held every year the August 14th.

History

The name of Sassari appears for the first time in an old register of the Monastère of San Pietro di Silki, where is named, in an act of 1131, some Jordi de Sassaro . In 1135, one evokes for the first time, in language Sarde, the church of Sancti Nicolai de Tathari. Sassari is thus a young city but its territory and the Sanna museum offers testimonys of the human presence as of the Neolithic : like imposing the Ziggourat of the mount of Accodi, built towards 2400 before J. - C, like the 170 Nuraghe and Roman vestiges of the 2nd century.

During second half of the 13th century, Sassari is a commune directed by a podestà , initially allied with Pisa then with Genoa - what would explain the characteristics of the local dialect, the Sassarese, considered as close relation of the Toscan. It counted more 10.000 inhabitants. The houses built inside a strengthened enclosure, alternated with fields and courses and were separated by narrow and tortuous lanes. Along the North-South axis, extended the Platha de Cothinas , it is the current Victor-Emmanuel course. In its central part, where the Theater of the City is today, opened the place of the Commune and the Town hall.

In 1294, the city set up in free commune and promulga the Statuts of Sassari , which organized from a legal point of view city, political and administrative. The domination aragon ease coincided with one century of revolts, charesties and epidemics which depopulated the city which refleurit only with the peace of 1420 and reconquered its dominant position in the north of Sardinia. The Aragonese castle of the 14th century was destroyed at the end of the XIXe century. The Albergo Cittadino (inn citizen), the Communal palate as of beautiful residences of old the Platha remains witnesses of this time. XVIe century sees a marked influence of an Italian architecture, especially with the arrival of the Jésuite S and because of the influence of the Italian military architects who built the fortifications which were to protect the island from the incursions of the pirates. To this period, the birth goes back from the College of the studies of Saint-Joseph who in 1634 will become the Université of Sassari. The fountain of Rosello, set up in 1605-1606, in late style of the rebirth, became the symbol of the city and its bond with the ground.

After the plague of 1652, one attends a new development of the buildings, especially religious, and in particular the Saint Nicolas's Day cathedral. The domination Piedmont ease, in the neighborhoods of 1718, will be found, in the urban architecture, only fifty years after, as in the Ducal palate, where seat currently administration of the city, like on the frontages of the middle-class houses. in the following years, are built the theater Verdi, the new hospital, the prison. A system of places, organized according to a longitudinal axis which connects the Azuni place to the place of Italy. About 1870, the majestic palate of the province or the palate Giordano (neogothic) is built.

Eclecticism characterizes the new urban growth after the end of the XIXe century. It is the appearance of the Art nouveau and the severity of the public edifices of the reign of Humbert Ier, then the restoration and art déco. In the Thirties, the population growth gives place to a new frenzy of constructions and gives rise to the residential district of viale Italia, with houses of nationalist style and at the popular quarters of Rosello mount, joined together at the city by the bridge of the Beams, emblem of the Fascisme. The local trachite is used with excess to build behind the prison, the law courts, neo-classic style, and the place Count de Moriana, rationalist style. At the end of the Second world war, the population doubled while passing from 72.000 inhabitants to current the 129.000.

Soldier

The Brigade “Sassari” marked the military history of the Italy since its creation in 1915, in the Province of Sassari. Its anthem, Dimonios , is famous.

Sport

The city counts a club of professional Football which plays in Serie C2 Italian: Sassari Torres 1903 . Several famous players carried the colors of the Rossoblu of which in particular Gianfranco Zola and Antonio Langella.

The other sporting teams of the city are:

female Football: Serie has: S Torres Sassari
male Basketball: LegaDue: Dinamo Tennis shoe Sassari
male Handibasket: A1 series: Anmic Sassari
female Handball: A1 series: HC Sassari (current champion of Italy)

Administration

Hamlets

Bancali, Li Punti, Landrigga, Caniga, Campanedda

Communes bordering

Alghero, Muros, Olmedo, Osilo, Ose, Oporto Torres, Sennori, Sorso, Stintino, Tissi, Uri, Usini

See too

List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants

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