Casa Aragonese

About

It is a late sixteenth century aristocratic home, characterised by a beautiful external portico supported by seven pillars and it provides rare example of traditional central Sardinian domestic architecture. The house is on one level and has seven interconnecting rooms, three of which open onto the front porch, the other onto the garden. This part of the home was once joined to the adjacent part through an original angular door; it was thus a single structure with eleven rooms, including two on mezzanines. It was built with red trachyte from Fordongianus, it has windows and doors finely decorated in gothic-aragonese forms and with elements of renaissance influence. The inside is rich in decorations and refined features. The covers are characterised by a simple wooden warping on which the woven cane mat is set. The back of the house develops in areas bounded by stone walls and portals, such as the orchard garden, the barn is a covered space where the wagons used to stop.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 30 minutes