Cathedral of Cagliari is the main Roman Catholic Church of the capital of Sardinia. It was built in the 13th century Pisan-Romanesque style, and in 1258, the year received the status of Cathedral. In the 17th and 18th centuries the building was rebuilt in the Baroque style, and in 1930, it acquired its present facade in neo-Romanesque style similar to the facade of the Cathedral of Pisa.

The Church was built by pisacane in the town of Castel di Castro. It had the shape of a square with a Central nave and two side aisles with cross vaults. In 1258, the year pisanty destroyed the capital Giudicato di Cagliari, Santa Ijiu, and its Cathedral, and the new Church became the chair of the Bishop of Cagliari.

In the 14th century the transept were built, which gave the Cathedral the form of a Latin cross, and two side entrances. Appeared on the façade of the Gothic arched Windows and a bell tower was rebuilt. To the same period belongs the erection of the first chapel in the transept in the Italian Gothic style. The transept was finished after the conquest of Cagliari Aragonese dynasty, when there were built two chapels.

In 1618, the year for the construction of the sanctuary in the crypt, which is supposed to keep the relics of certain martyrs, was raised chancel of the Cathedral. And in 1669-1704-m, the interior of the Church was redone in the Baroque style. Then over the transept was erected the dome, and its Gothic chapel, on the contrary, were dismantled. The old facade of the Church at the beginning of the 20th century was demolished and in its place a new one was built in neo-Romanesque style.

Inside the main attraction of the Cathedral is the pulpit of the 12th century the works of the Maestro Guglielmo, originally intended for the Cathedral of Pisa. In Cagliari he was brought in 1312, the year and placed in the Central nave, in the third column. Four marble lions that supported the pulpit, today located at the foot of the presbytery balustrade. From other works of art worth noting Flemish triptych from the 15th century, the Baroque tomb of Bernardo de La Cabra, Bishop of Cagliari, who died from the plague in 1655, the year, the chapel of the 14th century and the mausoleum of the Aragonese king Martin I of Sicily, built in 1676-80-m years. In the crypt of the Cathedral sanctuary of martyrs – Santuario dei Martiri, which is 179 niches with the relics of local saints, found in the 17th century at the Basilica of San Saturnino. There you can see three of the chapel with Baroque decorations.