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Palazzo Doglio
Cagliari, Italy · Independent · Core Luxury
Cagliari waited a long time for a five-star hotel and got this one in February 2020: a Liberty-fronted block from the mid-1920s in Villanova, later gutted into prefecture offices, rebuilt at a cost of more than 30 million euros. The private courtyard became a public piazza with a fountain, wrought-iron galleries and boutiques, and the Teatro Doglio across the street reopened after 37 years dark with room for a thousand. Seventy-two rooms, some looking onto the early Christian Basilica of San Saturnino.
- 72 rooms
- Opened 2020
- Neighborhood: Marina
- Architect: Mei & Pilia Associati (2016-2020 restoration)
About Palazzo Doglio
- The hotel shares its ownership with the Forte Village near Pula and is run by Lorenzo Giannuzzi, the hotelier behind both that resort and the Palazzo Fiuggi wellness retreat in Lazio.
- Architects Mei & Pilia Associati rebuilt the ringhiera balcony galleries that the 1986 conversion had demolished, turning a working-class tenement feature into the frame of the new square.
- Under one roof there is a bakery, a gourmet pizzeria, a South American tapas grill, a Brazilian sushi counter, the Osteria del Forte and a 400 square metre spa.
History
Palazzo Doglio fills an entire trapezoidal block between via Logudoro, vico I Logudoro, via Goceano and via Nuoro, in a quarter of Cagliari urbanised in the 1920s and 1930s as the historic Villanova district spread outwards. The building went up around the middle of the 1920s, with the Liberty friezes that are characteristic of Cagliari between the two centuries. After a long period of abandonment and decay it was radically converted in 1986 into offices for the Prefecture, a job that saved or remade the street-front friezes but demolished the ringhiera balcony galleries of the inner court.
The rebirth was designed by Mei & Pilia Associati and completed in March 2020, and the hotel opened on 27 February 2020 as the first five-star hotel in Cagliari, on an investment of more than 30 million euros from the owners of the Forte Village at Santa Margherita di Pula, with Lorenzo Giannuzzi running it. The heart of the job was turning the complex's private courtyard into a public square, with the balcony galleries restored as a monumental element, a large entrance portal, a fountain at the centre and ground-floor porticoes for restaurants and boutiques. There are 72 rooms and suites, eight of them suites, some facing the Basilica of San Saturnino, plus a residential wing of private apartments and a 400 square metre spa with three treatment cabins. Across via Logudoro the Teatro Doglio was recovered after 37 years shut and reopened with capacity for a thousand people.
The setting
This is Villanova, one of Cagliari's oldest quarters, and the block sits in a pocket of it rich in monuments but long outside the tourist flow: the fifth and sixth century Basilica of San Saturnino on Piazza San Cosimo, the church of San Lucifero from the seventeenth century, and both a Roman and an early Christian necropolis. Parco delle Rimembranze and Parco Martiri delle Foibe are close. The hotel was built as an urban regeneration project for the area, adding a public square, a linear pedestrian piazza in basalt and granite for contemporary art installations, and the reopened Teatro Doglio. Poetto beach and its designated hotel stretch are a short ride away.
Restaurants and bars
- American Bar OLD — Bar
- Osteria del forte — Restaurant
Experiences
- Centenarian Rituals — Exclusive immersion into the Sardinian Blue Zone lifestyle, presented as an authentic way to discover the area's most genuine side.
Amenities
- Doglio Club
- Member's Club
- Court
- Leaders Club
- Catering service
- Venue set-up
- Chef's menu customized to client needs
- Wedding and private events organization
- Audiovisual technologies in meeting rooms
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