Tempio Pausania has national roads with Sassari ( SS 672 ), Olbia ( SS127 ) and Palau ( SS133 ).

Sassari (; ; ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with over 130, 000 inhabitants, or about 275, 000 including the metropolitan area.

Since its origins at the turn of the 12th century, Sassari has been ruled by the Giudicato of Torres, the Pisans, the Sassaresi themselves in alliance with Genoa, the Catalan-Aragonese and the Spanish, all of whom have contributed to Sassari's historical and artistic heritage.

The thinly populated Nurra Plain, located to the west, occupies the main part of the region of Sassari, while the urban agglomeration, with a population of about 275, 000 inhabitants, is located to the south east.

After the assassination of Michele Zanche, the latter's last ruler in 1275, Sassari became subject to the Republic of Pisa with a semi-independent status.

From 1323 the Republic of Sassari decided to side with the King of Aragon, in whose hands it remained for much of the following centuries, though the population revolted at least three times.

The city alternated years of crisis, featuring economic exploitation, the decrease of the maritime trade, made unsafe by the daily raids of Saracens pirates, political corruption of its rulers, the sacking of Sassari in 1527 by the French, and two plagues in 1528 and 1652, with periods of cultural and economic prosperity.

Sassari, along with the rest of Italy, became part of the newly created Kingdom of Italy.

* The Pisan City Walls that in the 13th century surrounded the city with 36 towers ( which at the moment only 6 remains ), and the Catalan-Aragonese Castle named Castello di Sassari, demolished in 1877, whose ruins, including some rooms, the basement, and part of a tower were rediscovered in 2008.

The port is connected by ferries with Genoa, Marseille, Toulon, Barcelona, Civitavecchia, Propriano, Expressway SS131 / E25 to Sassari and Cagliari, and a national road to Santa Teresa Gallura ( SS200 ).

A railway operated by Trenitalia connects the town with Sassari, and the rest of the island.

The son of Mario Berlinguer and Maria Loriga, Enrico Berlinguer was born in Sassari, Italy to a noble and important Sardinian family, in a notable cultural context, with family ties and political contacts that would heavily influence his life and career.

In 1937 Berlinguer had his first contacts with Sardinian anti-Fascists, and in 1943 formally entered the Italian Communist Party, soon becoming the secretary of the Sassari section.

In 1353 Marianus IV of Arborea, allied with the Doria family, waged war against the Catalan, defeating them at Decimum and besieging Sassari, but unable to capture Cagliari.

During the first world war the Sardinian soldiers of the Brigata Sassari distinguished themselves, with several being decorated with gold medals and other honours.

Eugenio Tavolara ( 1901 – 1963 ) was an artist born in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy, with interests in many disciplines.

In 1323 James II formed an alliance with Hugh II of Arborea and, following a military campaign which lasted a year or so, occupied the Pisan territories of Cagliari and Gallura along with the city of Sassari, claiming the territory as the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica.

* 19 November – Italy, Sassari, Vintage Cafe ( drum clinic and concert with Matt Filippini Band )

The son of a Sardinian landowning family, born in Sassari, Sardinia, he studied to become a lawyer with a degree in agricultural and commercial law.

He would play one game for Italian Serie C club Sassari Torres, and then re-sign with the Rough Riders ( then in the USL Pro Soccer League ) in 2004, scoring five goals with the team that first put him on the US soccer map.

After seeing Mihajlović practice, Blažević also agreed about the youngster's potential, taking him with the rest of the first team to Sassari for an impromptu getaway between two league matches towards the end of the season and even giving him a substitute appearance in Dinamo shirt in a friendly versus local club Torres Sassari.

Mario Berlinguer () ( Sassari, August 29, 1891 – Rome, September 5, 1969 ) was an Italian lawyer and politician.

He was born in Sassari, Sardinia, the son of Mario Berlinguer.

He was also a professor of constitutional law at the University of Sassari.

The Sassarese language, spoken in the area of Sassari, also has similar characteristics, even if it is more linked to Logudorese and has a different, both geographical and historical, origin.

The 11th-century Basilica of San Gavino in Porto Torres, Sassari, is also dedicated to this saint.

Sassarese is spoken in Sassari and its immediate area by approximately 120, 000 people out a total population of 175, 000 inhabitants ; it is also the language of the north-west of Sardinia, including Stintino, Sorso and Porto Torres ; in the mid-northern areas of Sardinia, its Castellanesi dialects of Castelsardo, Tergu and Sedini are more similar to the Gallurese.

Sassari is also the birthplace of Domenico Alberto Azuni, a jurist expert in commercial law.

In an attempt to improve the poor condition of the newly acquired Sardinia, he also restored the Universities of Sassari and Cagliari.

For the next 17 years Segni taught Agrarian Law for at the Universities of Pavia, Perugia, and Cagliari ; he was also rector of Sassari University.

Segni was also a professor of law at University of Sassari.

Traditional singing accompanied by guitar cantu a chiterra is also found in Sardinia, represented by performers like Luiginu Cossu, Maria Carta, and nowadays Franco Denanni ; this genre is especially well known in the northwest region of Logudoro near the city of Sassari and in the northeast region of Gallura.

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* The Cavalcata Sarda ( the Sardinian Cavalcade ); the a main event in Sardinia, on the last Sunday of May thousands of people come from all over Sardinia to Sassari to parade through the city in their local folk costumes on foot and riding on hundreds of the best Sardinian horses.

Ozieri can be reached from Sassari through the SS. 597 National road, and by Olbia ( SS. 199 ).

Torres was separated from the commune of Sassari in 1842.

Fiume Santo, a 1, 040 MW power station owned by E. ON, is a 5-10 km west from the port, in the municipality of Sassari.

The Archeological Museum of Sassari displays ceramics from the Copper or Aneolithic Age ( 2600 BC ).

Evidence from the Condaghi of San Pietro di Silki, in Sassari, and Santa Maria di Bonarcado concerning the children of slaves has been adduced to show that differences in agricultural lifestyles between regions may affect the survival rate of females, hypothetically through increased infanticide of baby girls.

On 28 December 1795 in Sassari insurgents demonstrating against feudalism, mainly from the region of Logudoro, occupied the city.

Angioy moved from Cagliari to Sassari, and during his journey almost all the villages joined the uprising, demanding an end to feudalism, but he had lost all popular support he fled to Paris and sought support for a French invasion of the island.

The main road from the south ( Cagliari ) to the north ( Sassari ) was enhanced ( the road still exists today and it still bears the name of Carlo Felice ).

Oristano can be reached by train from Sardinia's ports of Olbia and Porto Torres, and the island's main cities Cagliari and Sassari.

Jewish oil lamps from Sardegna in the Museo Nazionale Sanna, Sassari

Category: People from Sassari

Bacteriologists found staphylococci, streptococci, coli bacilli, Loeffler's bacillus, and other bacteria in samples of holy water taken from a church in Sassari, Italy in the late 1800s.

Category: People from Sassari