Friday, November 6, 2026 Search My Trip EnglishChinese
World news · travel · culture
Taiwan The Taiwan Times
Taiwan's window to the world

Cagliari Observatory

Cagliari, Italy · built 1899

Cagliari Observatory
Cagliari Observatory. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Cagliari Observatory (Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, or OAC) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (National Institute for Astrophysics, INAF). It is located 20 km away from Cagliari in Sardinia. It was founded in 1899 to study the Earth's rotation.

Observatory data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other observatories in Italy

See all in Italy →