Deterioration and dangers at Villa Fadda on Via Marconi in Quartu , which continues to fall to pieces amid general indifference and a restriction from the Superintendency preventing the demolition of a structure now almost completely collapsed and dangerous to everyone. A few months ago, following heavy rains , an entire side wall collapsed , then contained with netting to keep stones and bricks from falling into the street. Then the fence collapsed, the rubble was not removed, and pedestrians who should have walked underneath on the pedestrian path are forced to walk in the middle of the road.

"It's absurd that they're leaving everything like this because there's a restriction," says a local resident as he stops to gaze at the devastation . "What protection can a property have if there's nothing left to salvage? They should have thought about it sooner and saved this beautiful villa that was left to perish."

The splendid 19th-century building, apparently designed by Cima , once housed the Omni (National Maternity and Childhood Organization), a shelter for young mothers. When the Omni closed, a period of slow abandonment and decline began, and no one—neither the owners nor the municipality, which paid the rent from 1940 until about twenty years ago—ever did anything to prevent this from happening. It was the only red brick villa to have a unique double-bottom basement, stone corners, and wonderful 18th- and 19th-century fixtures, almost all of which have been stolen over time.

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