The University of Cagliari was founded in 1606 by Pope Paolo V and received a royal charter in 1620 from Filippo III before it opened in 1626. The University Palace houses the great hall, the Rector’s offices and the faculty offices of theology, medicine, law and philosophy. It was built in a Piedmonts Baroque style by the architect Saverio Belgrano who was from Famolasco in 1769. In the great hall there are four bronze statues, made in 1964 for the bicentennial of the construction, and they portray Philosophy, Law, Medicine and Science and Technology.
