Cagliari

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Cagliari (Sardinian: Casteddu, "castle"; Latin: Caralis) is the national capital of the Italian island of Sardinia.

Cagliari Halal Travel Guide

Cagliari Piazza del Carmine - Piazza del Carmine File:Map of Metropolitan City of Cagliari (region Sardinia, Italy).svg|Metropolitan City of Cagliari in Sardinia Cagliari is an Italian metropolitan city and the capital of an autonomous region of the island of Sardinia. The city has about 150,000 inhabitants, while its metropolitan area (including 16 other nearby municipalities) has more than 431,000 inhabitants.

Tourist information

  • Infopoint Via Roma n. 145 39.215204, 9.110501 Palazzo Comunale ☎ +39 070 6777397 Opening Hours:April - October 09:00-20:00; November - Mar: Monday to Saturday 10:00-13:00 14:00-17:00, Sunday 10:00-13:00

You can download audio and PDF guides from the [ Cagliari tourist website organized by 6 walking tours.

How to travel to Cagliari

East walls, under the Gothic Church and the Royal Palace - East walls, under the Gothic Church and the Royal Palace

Fly to Cagliari

  • Aeroporto di Cagliari-Elmas IATA Flight Code: CAG 39.253923, 9.060459 next to Elmas, roughly 6 kilometers West from central Cagliari - The airport is the busiest in Sardinia. Cagliari is served directly by a number of domestic and international flights, while well-connected Milan-Linate and Rome-Fiumicino airports can also serve as intermediate stops to this airport.

Ground connections

By train
  • Stazione di Elmas Aeroporto next to the airport

Stazione di Elmas Aeroporto - Trenitalia railways connect the airport to the city (10' ride, every 20' or so) and the rest of the island. - }}

By taxi

A number of tation/taxi taxi companies serve the airport.

By car

The airport is located on the SS130.

Travel by boat to Cagliari

Navigator of the Seas Cagliari - Cagliari harbour

  • Stazione Marittima di Cagliari 39.213020, 9.110820 - Connections by Tirrenia ferries with Civitavecchia via Arbatax (the ferry leaves Civitavecchia at 19:00 and arrives at 08:00), Naples and Palermo.

Travel by train to Cagliari

  • Stazione di Cagliari - Cagliari train station - 39.21612, 9.10800 - Connections to Elmas airport, Sassari (and the ferry terminal at Porto Torres), Olbia (and the ferry terminal at Golfo Aranci), Oristano, Iglesias and Carbonia Serbariu.

Travel on a Bus in Cagliari

While ARST is the main regional bus service provider to the city, a few other companies are also operate in the region. Notably, Turmo Travel runs buses to Olbia (and the airport) and Santa Teresa Gallura.

  • Stazione ARST Autolinee - regional bus terminal - Piazza Matteotti 39.21470, 9.10888 +39 800865042
Services
  • Deposito bagagli - Left luggage| at the bus terminal, next to McDonalds +39 346 5720570 Opening Hours: 07:00-20:00 Small item €1/hr, medium €1.5/hr, large €2/hr, 15% discount for 3 items There is no left luggage service at the train station, but the bus station is next to it. It's a short walk from the ferry terminal.

How to get around in Cagliari

Travel on a Bus in Cagliari

CTM Solaris Trollino 12 - A trolleybus in Cagliari

  • CTM - Single, valid 90 min €1.30 (sold on board €1.80); Single bus+metro, valid 2 hours €2 (sold on board €2.50); Day pass €3.30. Tickets must be validated on 1st boarding - Cagliari public transportation provides efficient and reliable (to Italian standards) services to get around the town and suburbs. There are about 30 bus and 3 trolleybus (filobus or trollino in Italian) lines in the city.

By light rail

  • Metrocagliari - Single, valid 90 min €1.30 - A light rail systen run by ARST. It has 2 lines that serve the town of Cagliari and part of its metropolitan area. Both lines run quite off the centre of the city.

How to travel to Cagliari by car

It is really difficult to get parking and drive in rush hour even if the road network has been recently improved.

What to see in Cagliari

Palazzo Civico Baccaredda - Palazzo Civico, Cagliari Cagliari kathedrale fassade01 - Cagliari Gothic Church The best thing is to walk through the old city and discover it. Almost everything you have to see in a quick visit of Cagliari can be visited by a pleasant little walk. Plus there are some spectacular views, for example of the Gulf of Cagliari seen from the old city that are best seen from points that are not reachable by car.

Old town

The core of the old town is the Castello neighborhood which lies on top of a hill facing the Gulf of Cagliari.

  • Cattedrale di Santa Maria di Castello - Gothic Church of St. Mary and St. Cecilia | Piazza Palazzo 4/a 39.218731, 9.117000free Cagliari Gothic Church 73495 - Cagliari Gothic Church is a beautiful 13th-century church with Neo-Gothic façade. Do not miss the Shrine of the Martyrs, excavated out of the rock.
  • Palazzo di Città - Ex Palazzo di Città | Piazza Palazzo, 6 39.218544, 9.116544 - Opening Hours: September - May Tuesday West Thursday Sunday 10:00-18:00, Friday Saturday 10:00-20:00; June - Aug 10:00-20:00 €6
  • Palazzo Regio - Viceregio | 39.21933, 9.11693 - Opening Hours: 9:00-19:00 €2.90 The building was the residence of the royal representatives during the 14th century. In the 18th and 19th centuries it passed trhough some reconstruction and restoration stages.

CagliariBastioneRemy - Bastione Remy in Cagliari

  • Bastione di Saint Remy 39.21612, 9.11655 Piazza Costituzione free Palazzo Regio (Cagliari) This impressive fortification was built in the late 19th-century. Climb the huge stairways to be rewarded by a stunning view of the city and the sea and the mountains. Or use the elevator.
  • Bastione di Santa Croce 39.220252, 9.114543 - Porta Cristina - 39.221701, 9.116525 - The gate built in 1825 in neoclassical style.
  • Chiostro di San Domenico Via XXIV Maggio - GPS: 39.218889, 9.120278

Chiostro di San Domenico - The cloister dates back to the 15th century. It was restored after the WWII.

  • Chiesa di San Michele - Via Ospedale, 2 - GPS: 39.219038, 9.111507 - Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 9-12, 19:00-21:00, Sunday 8:00-11:00, 19:00-20:30 Chiesa di San Michele (Cagliari) - This church was consecrated 1538, but its Spanish Rococo decoration dates back to the 18th century decoration and considered the best example of this style on the island. }}
Pisan towers

Cagliari burg elefantenturm - Torre dell'Elephante The towers were built in the 13th century during the Pisan domination of the city.

  • Torre di San Pancrazio - Saint Pancras Tower | gallery/3 39.2215076, 9.1169556 - Opening Hours: temporary closed €3 Torre di San Pancrazio - Built in 1305 by the Sardinian architect Giovanni Capula, who designed also the Torre dell'Elefante. Good view over Cagliari from the top.
  • Torre dell'Elephante - Tower of the Elephant | gallery/2 39.2178015, 9.1150016 - Opening Hours: 10:00-19:00 €3 Torre dell'Elefante - The tower was built in 1307.
  • Torre dello Sperone - degli Alberti or di San Michele - 39.218611, 9.111667 - Torre dello Sperone -

Other sites

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  • Anfiteatro Romano - Roman Amphiteatre | gallery/5 Viale Sant'Ignazio 19 39.22393, 9.11232 - Opening Hours: 10:00-14:00, 15:00-19:00 €3 Roman Amphitheatre of Cagliari
  • Basilica di San Saturnino - San Saturno | Piazza San Cosimo 39.213889, 9.123333 - Opening Hours: Friday 15:00-19:00, Saturday 09:00-19:00, 1st Su/ month 09:00-19:00 Basilica of San Saturnino - This paleochristian complex dates back as early as to the 5th century. The church itself was built in Provençal-Romanesque style and consecrated in the 11th century, which makes it the oldest in the city.
  • Santuario di Nostra Signora di Bonaria - Shrine of Our Lady of Bonaria - 39.2085, 9.1257 - Opening Hours: 06:30-19:30 Shrine of Our Lady of Bonaria - An important religious complex. Some parts of it dting back to 1335, while the Balilica was completed only in the beginning of the 20th century. Like many historical monuments in Cagliari it was restored after the WWII.

=== Liberty architecture=== Palazzata della via Roma Via_Roma_(Cagliari)#Palazzata - A collection of eclectic façades along the Via Roma including the Palazzo Civico.

  • Palazzo Civico - Palazzo Bacaredda - 39.215278, 9.110556

Palazzo Civico (Cagliari) - The edifice was originally build in 1907 and then it was reconstructed from the WWII ruins between 1946-1953.

  • Palazzo Valdes Viale Regina Elena 39.216275, 9.117220 - Its older section, facing the Bastion of Saint Remy with a granite plinth and terracotta decorations, was designed by Nicolò Mura. The more recent section along the Via Sulis was designed by Riccardo Simonetti and has an interesting round wall facing the piazza Marghinotti.

Top Muslim Travel Tips for Cagliari

Museums

  • Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari sba-@ Piazza Indipendenza 7 39.222345, 9.1166928 ☎ +39 070 684000 Opening Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 09:00-18:00 €5 National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari.
  • Galleria Comunale d'Arte viale San Vincenzo, 2 39.225995, 9.115884 Giardini Pubblici - Opening Hours: September - May T-Su 10:00-18:00; June - Aug T-Su 10:00-20:00 €6; combined ticket €8 (Museo d'arte simaese + Palazzo di Città + Galleria Comunale d'arte)

Galleria comunale d'arte di Cagliari - The art gallery of Cagliari hosts paintings and sculptures from the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. It also includes a so-called Stanze del Collezionista (Collector's Rooms) and the Collezione d'Arte Francesco Paolo Ingrao (Collection of Art Francesco Paolo Ingrao) which contains works of art in the period between mid-20th century towards the 1980s.

  • Museo d'Arte Siamese "Stefano Cardu" - Piazza Arsenale, 1 - GPS: 39.222808, 9.117365 - Hold a collection of the Oriental art from 15th to 19th centuries.
  • Pinacoteca Nazionale 39.222789, 9.116850 Pinacoteca nazionale (Cagliari) - Houses a collection of 16th-20th centuries paintings by Sardinian artists, 15th-18th centuries paintings of the Genoese, Neapolitan and Roman schools, a collection of Sardinian and Catalan altarpieces.
  • Museo delle cere anatomiche Clemente Susini - The Clemente Susini Collection of wax models of the University of Cagliari | Piazza Arsenale, 1 39.222053, 9.117094 - Opening Hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 09:00-13:00, 16:00-19:00 Museo delle cere anatomiche Clemente Susini - A collection of the wax models of the parts of the (not only) human body.
  • Centro Comunale d’Arte e Cultura Il Ghetto Comunial Centre for Art and Culture of the Ghetto | Via Santa Croce 18 39.2203679, 9.1148369 ☎ +39 070 6670190 Opening Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 10:00-21:00 free Displays about artichecture and city planning. Nothing about the ghetto.

===Parks=== Giardini pubblici - largo Dessì - GPS: 39.223560, 9.117719

Giardini pubblici di Cagliari - The 1st public park of the city dates back to the 1st half of the 19th century. There are about centenarian 60 trees there.

  • Orto Botanico di Cagliari - HBK -- Hortus Botanicus Karalitanus | 39.221000, 9.110187 - Opening Hours: April - October Tuesday - Sunday 09:00-18:00 3/index.php?catID=12&artID=1703 €4 Orto Botanico dell'Università di Cagliari
  • Orto dei Cappuccini - Garden of the Capuchins | Vico I Merello 39.224973, 9.111464 - Opening Hours: 08:00-20:00 Orto dei Cappuccini - The garden was founded In 1595 by the Capuchin friars on the hill to the West of the ruins of the Roman amphitheater. A

Beaches

You must have a full relaxing day on the wonderful Poetto Beach. This 8 km beach will excite you and is perfectly equipped to satisfy every your wish. You can get here by buses PF, PQ, 3P and 9P. The beach is divided to the free parts and the beach clubs and the latter charging you with an entry fee but rent umbrellas, deck chairs, etc. for you. Prices are around €3/entry, about €12 for an umbrella, a deck chair and a sun bed. The club beaches clean the sand each night and provide you with showers and toilets.

Shopping in Cagliari

Most of the shops are concentrated in a couple of areas: Via Roma and Largo Carlo Felice and the pedestrial roads Via Manno and Via Garibaldi and the part of town around Via Alghero, Via Paoli and Via Dante. Lots of beautiful shop are concentrated in this areas which could remind you of Copenhagen's Strøget.

Halal Restaurants & Food in Cagliari

There are many of restaurants in the old town area, mostly along via Sardegna and via Napoli. A dinner for two with a little house will set you back 40 to 70 euros at most.

  • Ci Pensa Cannas Via Sardegna 37 39.214726, 9.112373 ☎ +39 070667815 €15-20 - This small family trattoria near the port offer a €15 set lunch (spaghetti with seashells, fried seafood, a glass of and a cup of coffee). Service unassuming, but the food is good.
  • Pizzeria Il Pepe Rosa Via Della Pineta, 108 39.208519, 9.133168 ☎ +39 070 303 313 €30-40 - Pizzeria-café Italian cuisine. A bit noisy place, very popular with local residents due to the outstanding cuisine.
  • L'Oca Bianca Via Napoli, 38 39.2148116, 9.1128415 Marina District ☎ +39 070 664339 - A good Pizzas place tucked away in the side streets. Make a reservation, though.

There are a few places to enjoy lunch salads at the Piazza Yenne and wonderful Gelaterias if you don't want to eat too heavily during the day. These places double up as nice eateries by night.

  • Caffe degli Spiriti Bastione San Remy 39.2166775, 9.1166487 on top of Bastione San Remy ☎ +39 070 311 03 73 - Sardinian specialties, salads, Pizzas, ham, etc. At night cocktails and loungebar. Great view over the city and the ocean.
  • Convento San Giuseppe Via Paracelso snc - Prolungamento Via Parigi - GPS: +39 070 503 343€40-80 - It's said it is one of the best restaurants in the city, located in a building dating back to 1270. There are more than 250 dishes to choose from.

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Ramadan 2024 Celebrations in Cagliari

Ramadan 2025 in Cagliari

Ramadan concludes with the festival of Eid al-Fitr, which may last several days, usually three in most countries.

The next Ramadan shall be from Friday, 28 February 2025 to Saturday, 29 March 2025

The next Eid al-Adha shall be on Friday, 6 June 2025

The next day of Raʾs al-Sana shall be on Thursday, 26 June 2025

The next day for Mawlid al-Nabī shall be on Monday, 16 September 2024

Muslim Friendly Hotels in Cagliari

The whole area around Cagliari gives host to a number of lodging options including the Forte Village and Le Meridien Chia Laguna on the white sandy beaches of Chia.

  • Hotel Tanca Irde Strada per Poggio dei Pini Capoterra - From €58 double

| content Hotel Tanca Irde is located on a small hill between the mountains and the sea, within the area of Capoterra, a few kilometers from Cagliari and its airport. The hotel, which is open all year round, is surrounded by ample grounds containing a swimming swimmingpool and private vehicle park.

  • Del Fiore Via Sebastiano Satta 29 39.2181636, 9.1227239 ☎ +39 338 112 3052 €70 A few nice rooms with private bathrooms. One with a balcony.

Cope in Cagliari

Wear comfortable shoes, though. The old town of Cagliari is somewhat hilly, so you will be walking uphill or downhill most of the time. There are clean public toilets in the building on the Pontile Sanita ferry wharf, near the bus terminal.

Stay Safe

Cagliari is a very safe city both day and night. Visitors will be very unlikely to have any issues providing they follow the same precautions they would at home.

Telecommunications in Cagliari

  • Free WiFiCa free Free wireless internet, without registration in the historic center and at the train and bus stations. In general if you have a good view of the city you can get online.

News & References Cagliari

More Muslim friendly Destinations from Cagliari

  • Barumini for the Su Nuraxi the only {{UNESCO|UNESCO World Heritage List#Italy|UNESCO-listed site in Sardinia
  • Alghero, commonly called Barcelonetta (Little Barcelona), is a pretty city with a strong Catalan influence and is also known for its beautiful beaches and very good food at reasonable prices (4-hr bus trip from Cagliari).

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