Southern Italy and Sicily, with Excursions to Sardinia, Malta, and Corfu

1912

Special Collections DG416 B353 1912

Leipzig: K. Baedeker

The regional capital of Sardinia is Cagliari. The city – one of the hottest and most arid in Italy – is in the south of the island, on a hill area overlooking the Golfo degli Angeli (‘Bay of Angels’). The Castello, the old part of town, is still there, along with a Roman amphitheatre, a cathedral (completed 1312), and two early 14th-century white limestone towers: the Torre di San Pancrazio and the Torre dell’Elefante, which was constructed by the Pisans in 1307. Both towers are positioned in the Baedeker at C3.