A Companion to Sardinian History, 500–1500

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 531 which became the city’s exclusive residential area starting in the early d ...

532 Cadinu construction of walls in opposition to the giudicale authority, whose headquar- ters were in nearby Ardara. Enzo, the ...

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 533 Igia, Castro Novo Montis de Castro, which is today Cagliari’s Castello dis ...

534 Cadinu Figure 19.13 Aerial view of Cagliari. The Castello district founded by the Pisans in 1216 seen from the waterfront, n ...

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 535 By way of contrast, Pisans—particularly sailors—designed Cagliari as an ef ...

536 Cadinu Cagliari with two new districts, Stampace and Villanova, on the model of the continental new towns (Fig. 19.15).78 Th ...

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 537 The line between the first two towers—for more than 40 years a “sacred” an ...

538 Cadinu stratification in the churches of Santa Restituta and Sant’Efisio in Stampace, they did not appear to affect Pisan se ...

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 539 Figure 19.16 Iglesias and its urban plan, along the ruga mercatorum (dashe ...

540 Cadinu a large natural harbor on the ruins of the imposing Punic/Roman conurbation of Olbia, a civita grew around the cathed ...

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 541 Figure 19.17 Terranova di Gallura, detail of the 1739 plan of the new town ...

542 Cadinu Figure 19.18 Olbia cadaster, highlighted the service alleys inside the Terranova blocks, drawn at the end of the thir ...

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 543 ancient Roman port basin.92 The city’s defense system was comprised of wal ...

544 Cadinu layouts, as well as locating the churches of Sant’Antonio and Santa Maria del Mare alongside one another on the coast ...

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 545 provided a constant slope for the terrain and probably advanced the coastl ...

546 Cadinu Figure 19.20 The “Pianta della città di Cagliari e dei suoi borghi” (plan of the city of Cagliari and its hamlets) s ...

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 547 The influx of Catalans and Aragonese had material and demographic reper- c ...

548 Cadinu Figure 19.21 The first core of Alghero on the promontory of the “Castello” (top left), in the late Middle Ages seat o ...

Urban Planning And New Towns In Medieval Sardinia 549 6 Jewish Districts in Sardinian Cities The main towns of Cagliari, Oristan ...

550 Cadinu 7 Conclusions The Mediterranean-wide political and institutional crises of the early Middle Ages profoundly diminishe ...