A brief walk up Via Satta leads to Piazza Satta, a small square dedicated to the great poet Sebastiano Satta (1867–1914), who was born in a house here. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, sculptor Costantino Nivola gave the square a complete makeover in 1967. Nivola whitewashed the surrounding houses to provide a blank backdrop for his curious work – a series of granite sculptures planted in the piazzalike menhirs. Each sculpture has a carved niche containing a small bronze figurine (a clear wink at the prehistoric bronzetti ) depicting a character from Satta’s poems.
