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Figure 13.13 One of the corridors inside the barbican of
the Aragonese castle.
With kind permission of the
Archaeological Superintendence
of Sardinia, Italian Ministry of
Arts, Culture and Tourism.
cathedral of S. Nicola, but in various private residences especially along
present-day Corso Vittorio Emanuele, back then the hub of social life and urban
business.52 By this point, Sassari was the most important city in Sardinia, with
its 2,500 residential units (equal to about 10,000 inhabitants) as compared to
the 848 that can be counted in Cagliari, 473 in Oristano, 411 in Alghero, 377 in
Iglesias, and 116 in Castelgenovese.53
52 Porcu Gaias, Sassari, pp. 59–113.
53 Francesco Corridore, “La popolazione di Sassari (dal secolo XV ai giorni nostri),” Archivio
Storico Sardo V (1909), p. 27.