Bastion San Remy is one of the most important fortifications of the city of Cagliari in Sardinia. Bastion is located in the Castello quarter, which is considered the historic center of the city. The name of this tourist attraction derives from the name of the Baron of San Remy, first Piedmont of the Viceroy.

The Bastion was built in the late 19th-century antique Cagliari city walls that were built in the early 14th century. These walls were interconnected southern bastions Zecca, Santa Caterina and the Sperone, who combined the Castello quarter, with quarters Villanova and Marina.

In 1896, the year the engineer Giuseppe Costa and Fulgenzio Setti designed Passegiata of Coperta (covered passage) and La Terrazza Umberto I (terrace) – the latter was built on the site of the old Bastion of the Sperone. The whole design is executed in classical style with Corinthian columns and is built of white and yellow limestone. The Grand opening was held in 1901, the year.

Staircase with two flights, which begins in Piazza della Costituzione, interrupted Passegiata of Coperta and ends under the arc de Triomphe on the Terrace Umberto I. In 1943, the year the stairs and the arch was seriously damaged during an air RAID on Cagliari, but after the Second World war have been restored.

From the Terrace Umberto I you can get to the Bastion of Santa Caterina, on the spot where once stood the Dominican monastery, which was destroyed in a fire in 1800, the year. They say that within the walls of this gloomy monastery in 1668, the year prepared the murder of the Spanish Viceroy of Camarassa – the loudest bloody event in those years.

Passegiata of Coperta since its opening in 1902, the year was used for different purposes. Originally, it served as a Banquet hall, then in the First World war, it housed the infirmary, and during the Second World in the Indoor Transition shelter for those whose houses were destroyed during the bombing of the city. After many years of neglect of Passegiata of Coperta was restored and transformed into a cultural venue for art exhibitions.