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The writer Giuseppe Dessì spent his adolescence in this house.
The building, before being bought by the Dessì family, belonged to the senator. The house preserves some typical characteristics of the “case contadine campidanesi” (one flour farm houses that have an internal garden, which faces all of the rooms; the internal courtyard is surrounded by arches called “lolle”), the outdoor structure mainly comprises: the large wooden portal, the large courtyard and porticos, and “is lollas” that were used as a shelter for the animals. The country house is accessed via a granite staircase that has an iron banister with a floral motif, the only element that brightens up the simplicity of the facade.
Present day the building accommodates the “la Fondazione Giuseppe Dessì” (The Giuseppe Dessì foundation), an establishment set up in 1989 with the intention of introducing the writer’s human and cultural message and promoting his literary work.
Author’s words
…The senator’s house is a small two-flour building lacking in architectural pretense that stood out nonetheless amongst the stone built rustic house, without mortar, that surrounded it. And it did not lack in its simplicity a certain austere elegance (Giuseppe Dessi - Paese d’ombre)
