The Park House building was formerly a Hospital and was part of the Maritime Quarantine Sanitary Station building complex, which was developed in La Reale from mid-1885.
In the front of the right forepart of the building facing the sea, the date 1889 of the completion of work, carved under the eaves cornice, is clearly still visible.
The architectural, compositional, distributive and constructive design of the building strictly meets the dictates of turn-of-the-century sanitary construction.
The south front features a portico supported by slender and elegant cast-iron pillars.
The “Park House” today is a center intended for events, exhibitions and the holding of educational workshops aimed at school students of all levels.
It is, in fact, the operational headquarters of CEAS.inara (Center for Environmental Education and Sustainability).
Inside is the exhibition “Stories of Asinara,” dedicated to some historical moments of the island during the prison period.
It is made of photographic panels with black and white images belonging to Fam.
Massidda and at the base of each panel are lines from the evocative poem “Azenara” by the Turritan poet, as well as Guide of Asinara National Park, Fabrizio Pittalis.
In the Biodiversity Hall, an exhibition dedicated to Mediterranean sharks can be visited.
The bacteriological laboratory, not far away, was built during the peak period of the Maritime Sanitary Station, in the first decade of the 20th century.
A rectangular room consisting of three rooms that can be visited, the facade shows care in the rendering of cornices and pilasters.
The bacteriological laboratory now houses the Sea Center, a small nature museum with dioramas depicting the seabed and a malacological exhibition.
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