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Figure 19.21 The first core of Alghero on the promontory of the “Castello” (top left), in the
late Middle Ages seat of the judería of the city, is profoundly renovated after the
sixteenth century with the implantation of the Jesuit church of Santa Croce and
the homonymous street (dotted). The Piazza Civica (D), near the Porta al Mare
and the harbor (E), houses the main public and private buildings. The
complex of San Francesco (F) is likely the origin of the subdivision at regular
blocks (solid line), which saturates the areas adjacent to the first group,
distinguished by curvilinear paths (gray dashed line). The great restoration
undertaken by the Aragonese after 1354 develops around the Piazza del Bisbe
(Carra Real, A), with the new alleys laid between religious elements (black dashed
line): in evidence the system of main streets, Carrer de Bonaire (aa), C. del
Carmen (bb), Mayor C. (cc), and the road junction called les quatre cantonades
(B). The bell tower on the apse of the cathedral (C), in line with the Carrer de
Bonaire, guides the new expansion. The letter (G) indicates the Porta di Terra
(basis: plan cadastral 1876, Archives of Alghero City, copy of the original,
elaborated from Cadinu, 2001, p. 127, table 39).