Placed between Oberdan Street, City Hall Street and St. Peter’s Square, it has been for nearly a century, the center of the political and administrative life of the community. The city’s historical archives preserve records from which it can be seen that as early as about 1860, the city administration was thinking about building a new city hall. Built at the end of the 18th century in the Neoclassical style, the building has an L-shaped plan, is on two levels, and expresses its most representative features on the symmetrical main elevation. These are stylistic elements of fine workmanship, such as the cornices, frames to the window frames, balcony brackets, and gratings. The scarcity of adequate space to be allocated for public schools led the successive municipal administrations over the years to decide to house some elementary classes on the ground floor. Due to the state of abandonment in which it came to be for the construction of the present City Hall, the Old Town Hall has been the subject of, substantial renovation and static consolidation work, which has profoundly changed its internal architecture and intended use. The original organization of the rooms has been replaced by a series of exhibition spaces, aimed at the museum setup that should accommodate archaeological material found in the area and the more than 200 artifacts (including ceramics, funerary furnishings and jewelry) from the Punic-Roman necropolis of Cuccuru Boi Concas.
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