Eureka!

Final version, accomplishing all my objectives:
- site dir, with fallback to base dir;
- static files directly, php files through fastcgi;
- not calling fastcgi on nonexistent files;
- not using "if" (somebody mentioned performance problems?)

location / {
root /var/www/site1;
try_files $uri @base;
}
location @base {
root /var/www/base;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
root /var/www/site1;
try_files $uri @basephp;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
location @basephp {
root /var/www/base;
try_files $uri ERROR;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

Is there anything nicer I can put in the last try_files, instead of the nonexistent file "ERROR"?

Tobia
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