Stampace, enclosed between the neighbourhoods of Castello, Marina, Tuvixeddu and Sant’Avendrace, is the largest of the historical neighbourhoods in the city of Cagliari.
The Roman amphitheatre and Villa Tigellio bear witness to the use of the area as early as the Roman era; that said, it was under Pisan occupation in the XII century that the neighbourhood was expanded. Initially, the Pisans used the area to welcome refugees from nearby Santa Igia, capital of the giudicato of Cagliari; the neighbourhood housed artisan workshops, merchants and small middle-class homes.
In the XIX century, the modest wall enclosure built by the Pisans for the district was demolished together with those of the Marina and Villanova. The demolition of the walls, by now irrelevant, was a positive step in encouraging the development of the middle-class city and its expansion, from which the modern neighbourhoods of the west of Cagliari progressively developed.
Thanks to these historical features, its urban fabric is, therefore, an occurrence of palazzi, residential buildings and churches.
