Cammino Minerario di Santa Barbara: Points of interest
Cultural and natural places linked to this walk in the Appy catalogue. Check each location and description to plan your visit.
- Palazzina
The massive character of the structure, the orderly sequence of openings, the portal positioned axially and surmounted by a delicate bifora with semicircular arches similar to the openings on the…
- Library
The building consists of two structures built at different times, one of which can be dated to the late 1800s and the other to around 1930.
- Villa
The building occupies a planted lot with olive trees of about 2000 square meters and represents a significant example of architecture typical of the late 19th century, at least for the original…
- Viale delle Rimembranze di Iglesias
memorial avenue for the fallen of the First World War
- Cemetery
the Valverde complex in Iglesias follows the principles of late eighteenth-century cemeteries, characterized by orthogonal axes and avenues that divide the spaces.
- Reservoir
the building, originally the water reservoir needed for processing ore in the nearby gravimetric washing plant of the Malfidano mine, features a trapezoidal plan, with thick stone walls and small…
- Building
the building is positioned at the end of a prominent road axis, featuring a strongly elongated rectangular plan, with one of the shorter sides shaped like a pediment, constituting the main front of…
- Warehouse
the building, developed over two levels, has retained its ancient structure consisting of several buildings organized around a rectangular internal courtyard, forming an irregular trapezoidal block.
- Garage
the building, a miniature of the larger building it accompanies, has a regular rectangular plan and a gabled roof, preserving corner pillars, supports, and lowered archways made of solid brick.
- Power Plant
the building, originally used as a power plant, is one of the first examples of similar industrial buildings in Sardinia.
- Teatro
the building, estimated dimensions 10 x 25 m, has always been the site of the theater, positioned at a modest widening along a prominent road axis.
- Warehouse
The rectangular building is characterized by a wide double-pitched roof covered with tiles, featuring notably thick masonry with exposed surfaces and joint plastering, brick piers and arches…
- Palazzetto
The urban palazzetto, of great significance for its decorative apparatus and its position relative to the Municipality, has an almost rectangular plan, with sides measuring approximately 12 meters…
- Palazzo
A rectangular structure built on two above-ground levels. The load-bearing walls are made of local granite with regular and irregular squared blocks, joined with lime mortar.
- Casa
a regular rectangular building that rises for three above-ground levels.
- Monte granatico
The building has a rectangular plan, estimated dimensions of 12 x 25 m, and features a gabled roof.
- School
The building, estimated to be 50 x 20 m., is an example of late twentieth-century architecture.
- Casa
courtyard house of the Campidanese tradition, with 3 simple openings per floor on the west side, of different sizes depending on the level.
- School
first school building for the town, built in two phases, realizing a raised structure on the original rectangular layout of 26.20 by 16.70 meters, and adding a staircase block to the southeast with…
- Viale delle Rimembranze di Guspini
The area in question is located outside the town center, along Via Verdi, extending in an EAST-WEST direction.
- Ex Monte Granatico
The warehouse, with its simple rectangular shape, gains momentum from the base on which it rests.
- Warehouse
building with a regular rectangular plan featuring a double-pitched roof and Sardinian tiles.
- Parco delle Rimembranze di Gonnosfanadiga
memorial park for the fallen of World War I
- Sports field
The municipal sports facility, due to its location and surrounding landscape, has been one of the most beautiful fields in the province.
- Casa
The small palace, due to its location overlooking Piazza Zampillo and adjacent to the former Monte Granatico, for its use as a literary café and the architectural quality it still possesses…
- Cemetery
The Cemetery of Villacidro is located north of the town and built on the natural orography of the place.
- Ex Monte Granatico
The building, originally consisting of a ground floor and first floor, has remaining wall sections that delimit an area of roughly quadrangular shape, divided into two pseudo-symmetric bays by a…
- Ex tonnara Su Pranu
The activity of tuna fishing, along with the establishment of facilities for processing the catch, represents the first impetus for the urban aggregation of many centers in Sardinia.
- Flue and smoke disposal system
The entry concerns the system intended for the disposal of fumes produced by the extraction machines of the Baueddu Well.
- Baueddu Extraction Complex
Of the original complex consisting of the extraction castle and the service building, only the ruins of the latter remain, as the well castle was demolished a long time ago.
- Monte granatico
The building, estimated to be 12 x 30m in size, has a regular rectangular plan that is strongly elongated in relation to the direction of the road, characterized by a triple opening shaped as a full…
- Town Hall
The building, estimated to be 15 x 22m in size, is located in the area of the original foundation of the settlement.
- Cappella
The chapel, estimated to be 5 x 5 m in size, is located in the oldest part of the cemetery, at the end of the main access avenue.
- Cemetery
the original portion of the cemetery of Domusnovas, estimated dimensions 50 x 80 m., accompanied by a subsequent expansion, conforms to the dictates of late nineteenth-century cemeteries, with axes…
- Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta
The internal spatiality of the church is based on a Latin Cross layout, with the peculiarity of two domes, one located at the intersection of the main nave and the transept, the other placed on the…
- Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio
The interior space consists of a single nave with four chapels on each side, and a semi-ellipsoidal apse.
- Mining Administration Office Building
The building is situated on the hill with two floors. A circular projection is added at a lower half-floor.
- Industrial Building
The main building has four stepped floors resting on the mountain slope with a portico; the central body has infill made of corrugated sheet metal and large windows with small grid patterns; with…
- Municipal Cemetery
The cemetery's wall, plastered, has a square plan. The portal, which connects two service rooms on the sides, is arched, topped by a small pediment with a triangular tympanum.
- Old Cemetery
A small rural cemetery, currently disused, consisting of a square wall to which sarcophagus burials are attached.
- Chiesa di S. Maria di Monserrato
The building appears finished in its original physical conception, so that externally and internally there are no visible traces of additions over time, thus manifesting its architectural…
- Hotel
The building, made of load-bearing masonry of trachyte stone, consists of three bodies; a central body, estimated at 11 x 32 m, which develops three above-ground floors parallel to Via Fosse…
- Hotel
The building bodies occupy a lot of about 7000 square meters and have two above-ground floors. They consist of two volumes that can be identified with the shapes of C with symmetric arms and L.
- Casa
The construction in 'camerone', estimated dimensions 7x30 m, consists of a single floor with an elongated rectangular plan and a gabled roof, without internal partitions.
- School
The building, occupying a lot of about 1650 sqm, develops over two above-ground floors and features a clean and linear architecture typical of Italian rationalism.
- Store
The building consists of two rectangular bodies arranged at right angles.
- Palazzo
The building, occupying a lot of about 2200 sqm, consists of two separate building bodies divided by a large private courtyard with commercial structures on the ground floor and apartments on the…
- Market
The building, estimated dimensions 40 x 40 m, presents an isolated block type, with a square plan and a flat roof from which a volume, also square in plan, recedes from the outer edge of the…
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