Vintage Palazzo di città – a historic building in Cagliari, the seat of the city administration since the middle Ages and up to the beginning of the 20th century. It is located in Piazza Palazzo in the quarter of Castello. Today the Palace houses a permanent exhibition of the Ethnographic Fund Manconi Passino, Foundation ceramics from the collection of Ingrao (Fondo Ceramico della Collezione Ingrao) and the Foundation of sacred art from the same collection. In addition there is the office of the mayor of Cagliari.

The Palazzo di città was built in the 14th century, but its present appearance it acquired during reconstructions of the 18th century, when the building was rebuilt in the style of the Piedmontese Baroque.

After the administration of Cagliari moved into new Palazzo Civico, in the old Palazzo di città for many years housed the Conservatory of music of pier Luigi da Palestrina. In 1970, the year the Conservatory of music moved into its present building on via Bacarella. The Palace was abandoned and re-opened only in 2009, the year – after a long period of restoration.

The main facade of the Palazzo di città, facing the Piazza of the Palazzo, remarkable elegant portal surmounted by a marble plate of the 16th century, in the inscription which commemorated the visit in Cagliari Emperor Charles V. Over the stove visible emblem of Cagliari. Lateral facade of the Palazzo overlooking the via Canyelles and the Piazza Carlo Alberto, attracts the attention of a huge window in the center of the tympanum, which also placed the emblem of the city.

In the inner rooms of the Palazzo di città was once housed works of art, now exhibited in the new municipality, - among them were paintings by Marinetti and Pietro Cavaro. On the ground floor of the Palace is a spacious hall with wooden coffered vaults of the 16th century. In the basement in addition to ancient cisterns to collect rainwater, you can see the cobblestone floor of the middle Ages and two doorways with arches in the late Gothic style.