Draft:Ottone Bacaredda

Ottone Bacaredda was born20 December 1848 to a family of wealthy merchants. He was elected as Mayor of Cagliari n the elections of 1889. In 1899, after King Umberto I had laid the foundation stone of the new Cagliari City Hall, Bacaredda stood down as Mayor and was elected to the Parliament (1900-1904). He resigned after three years in the position.

In 1905 he was again Mayor of Cagliari, and the following year he had to confront a riot by his political opponents over the exorbitant cost of living, causing numerous casualties and significant material damage. After another resignition he was returned to office between 1911 and 1917. He died in Via San Giovanni, on 26 December 1921, after having dedicated his life to a city ‘which still today remembers his long, fruitful work, and considers him not as a mayor – albeit of great longevity, with 32 years of service – but as the Mayor’ by popular definition.

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