Dionigi Scano (Sanluri 1867 – Cagliari 1949) Engineer, writer, intellectual, was one of the most brilliant personalities of our city.
The complex consisting of today’s Independence Square and Arsenal Square was arranged, as we see it today, as a result of the demolition, of some wall structures that, starting in the 1500s, had been leaning against the Tower of San Pancrazio and the building of the Royal Archaeological Museum dating back to the years between 1904 and 1906 when Scano arranged the area immediately behind the Palace of the Seziate, remodeling a building that had already been used as a Mint and then as a women’s prison.
It was home to the Archaeological Museum until 1993, when the artifacts were moved to the new Museum Citadel location, along with the National Picture Gallery, which was housed in the Palazzo delle Seziate until the same year.
