The Dettori House

The Dettori House is a one of the oldest houses in Uri and is located in via Roma. The building is dated to the 16th – 17th centuries, corresponding to the transfer of property to the Mulas family: a family of rich landowners, their wealth generated from estate and agricultural products. Among these products, the artichoke must be mentioned as one of the main products of the territory of Uri. It has had protected designation of origin status since 1782 according to official documents of the compagnia baracellare (tn* Sardinian private Rural Police force). Casa Dettori is a traditional house, of significant historic interest that has been subject to minimal modification over time. The dwelling has been the scene of some important town events: it was home to Giorgio Pinna –Mulas, mayor of Uri, who together with his brother the vice parish priest Giovanni, was involved in an uprising promoted by Giovanni Maria Angioy (tn* a Sardinian politician and patriot and is considered to be a national hero by Sardinian Nationalists because of his efforts to reform and change the social and economic structure of Sardinia). Inside the house a plea was written, addressed to the King of Savoy. It described the oppression suffered by the population in Uri under the lords of Ittiri and Uri. The first news of the building dates back to 1600 when, after the death of the rector of Uri, Angelo Mulas, there was a dispute among heirs about the inheritance. It was handed down to the Pinna family in 1732, then in 1797 the building was handed down to the noble family Delogu Zatriglias from Bonnanaro and stayed in their possession for two generations. The building was used as quarters of the Town Council during the administration of Giorgio Pinna and Don Giovanni Antonio Delogu. In 1848, a military parade departed from the home of Giovanni Antonio Delogu, captain of the National Guard and reached the street Carrela ‘e Cheia. It celebrated the concession of the The Statuto Albertino and its coming into effect in the Sardinian Kingdom (tn* the Albertine Statute was a constitution granted by King Charles Albert of Sardinia to the Kingdom of Sardinia on 4thMarch 1848 and was written in Italian and French. The Statute later became the constitution of the unified Kingdom of Italy and remained in force, with changes, until 1948, marking the end of absolute monarchy in Italy). In 1907, the Dettori house became part of the Dettori family’s heritage by succession, with the marriage between donna Domenica Delogu-Garuccio and Don Giovanni Salvatore Dettori-Arru of Pozzomaggiore, celebrated in 1870. Between the end of the 1800s and 1927 it was also home to the Regie Poste, the Royal Post Office. In 2009, Casa Dettori was bought by the Town Council with the intention of making it a house-museum and was included in the identity-building touristic itinerary “In Sos Logos de Anjoy” (tn* The places of Anjoy), and promoted by the Camillo Bellini institution. Thanks to the project of territorial planning promoted by the Union of Towns of Coros, it will become a centre of rural redevelopment.

Source: pdf record from the Town Council of Uri – brochure in the Library, pages of the union of Town of Coros (video) (in Italian)