Sardinia Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; or ; ; ; ; ) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and before Cyprus). It is located west of the Italian Peninsula and to the immediate south of the French island of Corsica. Sardinia is politically a region of Italy, whose official name is "Regione Autonoma della Sardegna" / "Regione Autònoma de Sardigna" (Autonomous Region of Sardinia), and enjoys some degree of domestic autonomy granted by a specific Statute. It is divided into four provinces and a metropolitan city, with Cagliari being the region's capital and its largest city as
Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia The Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia (, also called "Parlamento Subalpino") was the bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia. It was established in 1848 by the Albertine Statute and was dissolved in 1861, to be succeeded by the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy. It is thus the ultimate ancestor of the modern Parliament of Italy. There were two chambers: Joint sessions of the Parliament, for solemn occasions like the "speech from the crown" ("discorso della corona"), were held at the Palazzo Carignano, for space reasons. The two chambers were theoretically equal