In Nuoro stands the birthplace home of novelist Grazia Deledda, Nobel laureate for Literature in 1926. The building, dating from the second half of the 19th century, is located at Santu Pedru, one of the city's oldest quarters together with Seuna, and is an example of bourgeois residence. It has three floors and inner courtyards on the ground floor. Grazia Deledda lived here until her wedding in 1900. The house was sold in 1913 but remained mostly unaltered.
It was declared a national heritage building and purchased in 1968 by the Municipality of Nuoro, which in 1979 handed it over to the Regional Ethnographic Institute (ISRE) for the symbolic price of 1000 Italian Lire. The Institute immediately took steps to transform the house into a museum commemorating the writer. Thanks to the generosity of the Madesani-Deledda family, ISRE obtained a large number of manuscripts, photographs, documents and personal belongings of the novelist which were transferred from Rome to Nuoro and formed the museum's initial collection. It was opened in 1983.
The latest setup, created in 2006, sees the addition of new documents and tells the writer's ties to her hometown. It also proposes a journey through the society and culture of Barbagia and Sardinia at that time.
Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission
Via Malta 63 — 09124 Cagliari
Phone: +39 070 2041961
Email: filmcommission@regione.sardegna.it
