A Note On The De Candia's Ancestral Seat
The De Candia Palace in Sardinia, where Mario's Family lived (his mother and his brother Carlo) is situated in via Canelles in Cagliari (see the Land Register in the Archivio di Stato, Cagliari). This house is now a part of a nuns' convent. In 1847 Mario bought for his mother an other house in the vicinity, at the bottom of Via dei Genovesi, in Cagliari's old town (Castello), where until the 16th century stood the Pisan town-walls between the Elephant and the Lion Towers. The façade was possibly designed in neoclassical style by the architect Gaetano Cima, or maybe by Mario's brother, Carlo, who had studied architecture in Turin together with Cima. On the first floor there are wide halls with some frescoes and a large terrace with scenic views of the gulf of Cagliari.
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