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Enrico
July 8, 2021
Going uphill from Saint Vincent’s gardens towards the Castello district, you will go through a narrow gate called “de S’Avanzada”. Some refer to it as Saint Pancras’ Gate, due to Saint Pancras’ Tower being behind it, but the names are totally interchangeable. Also known as Altamira’s Gate, it was built as part of a plan put in place by the viceroy Don Luis de Altamira, to ample and enhance the defensive structures surrounding the castle (which gave the name to today’s neighbourhood Castello) and protect the city from the french threat during the XVII century. Where the moat previously was, this new gate was built. During the kingdom of the Savoys (successive to the Spanish one) it was decided to place another gate in front of Altamira’s. It was called Porta Falsa (literally “Fake Gate”). Some historians say that it was built to show a more modest and harmless gate to the enemy, before being welcomed with Altamira’s gate (that features a much more offensive-oriented profile). Porta Falsa was demolished in 1912 to make space for the tramway and you can still notice its profile on the right side of the stone wall a couple of meters prior to Altamira’s Gate (which, instead, is still standing). Altamira’s Gate (or Saint Pancras’ or de S’Avanzada) is still in use to this day, but the tramway doesn’t exist anymore. Being its entrance so narrow, it allows only for one row of vehicles to go through it at any given time. Cars alternate in one direction or the other with a system of traffic lights placed outside of Cristina’s Gate, on the other side. It is possible to go through it by walk to access the Arsenal’s Square, Independence’s Square, the National Archeological Museum of Cagliari and the area of Buon Cammino (where the impressive ex-prison complex of the same name it’s still visible). Because of how the traffic flows, it’s important to pay attention while going through the two gates by walk.
Going uphill from Saint Vincent’s gardens towards the Castello district, you will go through a narrow gate called “de S’Avanzada”. Some refer to it as Saint Pancras’ Gate, due to Saint Pancras’ Tower being behind it, but the names are totally interchangeable. Also known as Altamira’s Gate, it was b…
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