Angelo Piras

Review of English Centre, Sassari

The English Center is a renowned private school wh...

The English Center is a renowned private school where English is taught to children and also to "not very young" with qualified native teachers and educational workshops. The classrooms are on the ground floor of a modern tower block (late 70s). Via Paoli, however, is a one-way gut, and when it fills up with the cars of parents who go to collect their children after lessons, it becomes a "bedlam", particularly in the evening. That tower block reminds me of a defeat: when it was not possible to defend the botanical garden, which had a remarkable cultural and historical value, a piece of Sassari beauty and history that was canceled forever to make room for that beautiful tower block. According to many, the beginning of the urban-building plunder of Sassari. In the back of this building there is still a small piece of garden, with a large secular holm oak (Quercus ilex).