Palazzo Giordano Apostoli, Gothic palace in Piazza d'Italia, Sassari, Italy

Palazzo Giordano Apostoli is a rectangular palace on Piazza d'Italia in Sassari, built in Venetian Gothic style over three horizontal levels. The ground floor is clad in rusticated trachyte, with a central portal framed by two pairs of projecting columns that support the balcony of the piano nobile. The upper floors are plastered, with mullioned windows on the first floor and trefoil windows on the second, under a projecting cornice with a balustrade.

Construction of this palace began in November 1877 when commissioned by Senator Giuseppe Giordano Apostoli, founder of the newspaper La Sardegna. The completion of the building represented an important moment in the architectural development of Sassari during the late 1800s.

The Yellow Room's vault was painted by Rimini-born Guglielmo Bilancioni, and its mosaic floor shows a dancer, laid by Roman mosaicists to a drawing by Luigi Fasoli. The main staircase is also topped by a Bilancioni painting. Neogothic furniture bearing Baron Giordano Apostoli's crest survives from the original furnishings.

Access to the palace is limited since the building now serves as a bank office and is not regularly open to visitors. The facade can be best viewed from Piazza d'Italia to appreciate the Gothic windows and architectural details.

The palace's name honours Senator Giuseppe Giordano Apostoli, founder of the newspaper La Sardegna, who commissioned it in 1877. Inside, some neo-Gothic furniture still carries the baron's coat of arms, a detail that survived the 1921 sale to the Banco di Napoli, when much of the lavish interior furnishing was lost.