Cagliari

Of the historic port of Cagliari there are traces of its existence as early as the Phoenician-Punic period, and then in Roman times. The appearance we can see today is that of the 1900s. In fact, until the Unification of Italy, the port was small and separated from Via San Francesco da Paola (today's Via Roma) and then from the city by walls. Within the nineteenth-century port area was the little palace called Sanità, inside which goods and animals arriving in the city were controlled, for fear that they might be contaminated by some disease that could bring an epidemic. The Sanità palace stood in what is now the Sanità Pier, to which it left its name. Next to it stood a gate leading into the Marina district, which was also demolished at the same time as the rest of the walls. (Beginning in 1861 with Gaetano Cima's design until 1870 with the construction of the Cavenna palace in front of the dock). With the nineteenth-century works, the waterfront was moved away from the Marina district and the Darsena and Sanità piers were installed.