Sant'Anna, Baroque church in Stampace district, Cagliari, Italy

Sant'Anna is a baroque church in Cagliari with a concave central facade divided into two stories, featuring columns that frame the central doorway and rose window. The structure is crowned with two bell towers and sits on an elevated position within the Stampace district.

A 13th-century church, recorded in 1263 and made a collegiate church in 1616, stood on the site of today's transept. After its demolition, the first stone of Giuseppe Viana's baroque design was laid on 27 May 1785 by Archbishop Vittorio Filippo Melano. The church opened in 1817 but remained unfinished: the main altar, stuccoes and Rodolfo Gambini's paintings date from 1906, the steps from 1937 and the right bell tower from 1938. Bombed on 26 February 1943, it was rebuilt without the interior decorations and reopened in 1951.

The Cagliari saying 'Sa fabbrica de Sant'Anna' ('the building of Sant'Anna') is used sarcastically for anything that drags on endlessly, after the church's long construction. Inside, the second chapel on the right holds a 14th-century wooden crucifix from the demolished church of San Francesco di Stampace.

The church stands on Via Azuni in the lower part of Stampace, framed by two bell towers and reached by a characteristic flight of steps in front of the facade. The right bell tower was erected in 1938, while the stairway was arranged in 1937. The interior is divided into a hexagonal hall, a transept under a dome on an octagonal drum, and a deep presbytery.

The extraordinarily long construction period inspired locals to coin the phrase 'sa fabbrica de Sant'Anna' as a way to describe any project that seems to never finish. This saying remains part of Cagliari's everyday language today.