Casamento Scolastico Satta, was born in the building fervor of the years at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and is part of the phenomenon related to the shift of political and administrative power in the lower part of the city of Cagliari, which is moving toward a gradual abandonment of the “Castle Rock,” to concentrate the new directional system in the area near the Port. The construction of the building took several years (Tender Specifications 1899) and the designers, Dino de Gioannis and Fulgenzio Setti, created a building with an elegant, sober and solid appearance, in which the main entrance is from Via Crispi, where the coat of arms of Cagliari and the words Municipal School are carved in the lintel of the doorway. Office furniture will be provided by Marino Cao, splendid those in the Management Office, in neo-Renaissance style. In the 1920s, the building became home to the offices of the First District, on which all other Secondary Inspectors and all Rural Schools in the province depended, from their inception until their termination after World War II. In the 1930s the school took on even greater importance, but classes continued to be extremely large, even 59 pupils. In the years between 1940 and 1943, the building was no longer sufficient to hold all the pupils so the City of Cagliari had to rent the Palazzo Pichi, on Viale Trieste. On Feb. 18 came the order to suspend classes indefinitely: on May 13, the building was hit by bombs and largely destroyed. In this year dedicated to the celebration of the 1903/2003 Centennial, the School is promoting a series of initiatives to reconstruct and consolidate a very important historical memory of the first Public Elementary School in Sardinia that maintains its original purpose in close relation to current dynamics.
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