The earliest secure records date back to 1427, a time when Archbishop Pietro Spano (1422-1448) enlarged the Episcope. In 1441 the same bishop obtained permission to transfer the episcopal see from Turris to Sassari, and in the Pope’s document authorizing the transfer it is written, “ubi habet decens palatium.”
In 1517 the building was enlarged and embellished by Archbishop Giovanni Sanna (1516-ante 1524) whose coat of arms, now disappeared, existed on one of the entrance doors depicting a boar with large tusks. In the years that followed several additions and numerous ways were made by the various archbishops that gave the palace a sense of unevenness due to the lack of a unified design.
Between 1644 and 1652 by Archbishop Andrea Manca y Zonza (1644-1652) a restoration was carried out that gave the building the appearance it essentially retains today.
The itinerary will include a visit to the private rooms recently restored by the new Archbishop and the Chapel of St. Andrew, also restored to its former glory.
