Sassari

Sassari is the second-largest town in Sardinia and one of the most ancient Sardinian towns, and contains perhaps the best collection of Sardinian art. Its university has a high reputation, especially in Law studies, and in its libraries preserve ancient documents, among them the famous Carta de Logu (the constitution issued by Giudichessa Eleonora d'Arborea), or the Condaghes, Sardinia's first legal codes and the first documents written in the Sardinian language (11th century). The dialect spoken at Sassari is not Sardinian, but a Corsican language variety as in most of the Northern part of the island.