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Pretorio Palace
Pretorio Palace
The Pretorio Palace, imposing medieval building, is one of the most wonderful public palaces of Central Italy. Its structure is composed in part by white alberese stone of late Gothic epoch, decorated with elegant mullioned windows with two lights testify a lot amplification in different epoches.
Its structure is composed in part by white alberese stone of late Gothic epoch, decorated with elegant mullioned windows with two lights testify a lot amplification in different epoches. In the second half of the fourteenth century the tile part was probably made still higher loading to the palace level and realizing in the corner a tower now disappeared; an inside stairs (re-made in the sixteenth-century) and a clock completed the building that gave hospitality to the foreign magistratures.
Similarly to the public palaces of other Medieval communes of the central- northern Italy, also the Pretorio Palace was adorned with familiar coats of arms of podestà and vicars, with stone but also with marble and terra-cotta, disposed along the external walls of the square.
The small "a vela" bell tower with emblatted completion on the northern prospect was realized in XVI century. At the ground floor the portal takes in wide rooms where we can fin some frescoes (Bettino of Corsino (1307), Pietro and Antonio of Miniato (1425), while the external stairs load to the first floor.
Since 1912 it gave hospitality to the Civic Museum , still closed for restoration.
Its structure is composed in part by white alberese stone of late Gothic epoch, decorated with elegant mullioned windows with two lights testify a lot amplification in different epoches. In the second half of the fourteenth century the tile part was probably made still higher loading to the palace level and realizing in the corner a tower now disappeared; an inside stairs (re-made in the sixteenth-century) and a clock completed the building that gave hospitality to the foreign magistratures.
Similarly to the public palaces of other Medieval communes of the central- northern Italy, also the Pretorio Palace was adorned with familiar coats of arms of podestà and vicars, with stone but also with marble and terra-cotta, disposed along the external walls of the square.
The small "a vela" bell tower with emblatted completion on the northern prospect was realized in XVI century. At the ground floor the portal takes in wide rooms where we can fin some frescoes (Bettino of Corsino (1307), Pietro and Antonio of Miniato (1425), while the external stairs load to the first floor.
Since 1912 it gave hospitality to the Civic Museum , still closed for restoration.
