It is in this house that the author Giuseppe Dessì lived his adolescent years. This house is distinct for its sober elegance and was considered at the time one of the town’s loveliest homes. The Dessì family purchased it from senator Loru.

The house maintains some of the features of the peasant homes so typical to the province of Campidano to this day that can be seen in its outer structure: a large wooden portal covered with reeds, a wide courtyard and the loggias, is lollas, that were used to shelter animals in the past.

The manor house is entered by way of a small staircase in granite decorated with a special iron fence filled with floral motifs, the only element bringing some motion to the house’s simple façade. The staircase leads to a narrow veranda that runs through the length of the house on which both entrances are located. Today, as in the years gone by, the veranda is shaded by a vine-covered pergola, a characteristic that is often found in the homes of Villacidro.

Currently, the house is host to the Fondazione Culturale Giuseppe Dessì cultural foundation, established in 1989 with the goal of making this writer’s message known and promoting his work, organizing the Premio Letterario Nazionale Giuseppe Dessì National Literary Award that attracts the participation every year of Italy’s most prestigious publishing houses and illustrious writers.

Recently, the Dessì family has donated the writer’s personal library to the Foundation featuring thousands of books, some of which are rare and valuable, that tell the history of Sardinia and of the writer himself.