Palazzo Comunale - Piazza del Comune, Spoleto - steps to Spoleto 1962 - Nino Franchina

After the visit to the Roman House, we headed to Piazza del Comune in Spoleto.

Where you will find Palazzo Comunale.

The town hall of Spoleto is located halfway between the forum , now Piazza del Mercato, and Piazza del Duomo, in an area where noble houses, private or representative residences have stood since ancient times. In fact , its foundations partially rest on the area of the Roman house discovered by Giuseppe Sordini in 1885 .

After a long renovation completed in 2007 , it houses the institutional and political bodies of the city.

Previously other spaces were used, but after the year 1296 the city's government activity was concentrated in this newly restored building . We do not know the building's appearance before the thirteenth century, we only know that it included a cloister under whose arcades the podestà and the captain of the people performed part of their duties.

The oldest part of the building (13th century) is the tower on the south façade in via del Municipio; expansions and improvements that took place in the fifteenth century were possible thanks to the interest of Pope Nicholas V , whose family (mother, brother and uncles) lived in the city, inside the Rocca; himself in 1449 , to escape the spread of the plague in Rome, he joined the family and remained there for a few months .

Around 1455 inside the palace there was a chapel, which no longer exists, decorated by the master Arcangelo di Giovanni with sacred representations of the patron saints of the city. Of other frescoes, painted by Bernardino Campilio da Spoleto in 1498 and by Antonio Brunotti in 1510 , especially in the Sala delle udienze , important fragments survive.

In 1703 , the entire building was seriously damaged by the earthquake, so much so that the Council was forced to meet elsewhere. The complete restoration, approved after 3 years, will be long and will take place very slowly, due both to the scarcity of resources in the municipal coffers and to the subsequent and frequent earthquakes. In the end it will not be a simple restoration, but a total renovation of the building which is considerably enlarged by merging adjacent private houses. In 1782 , the Spoleto architect Pietro Ferrari presented projects which, however, failed to be completed. In 1784 it was decided to complete the work despite the opposition of many citizens who found the headquarters too large and sumptuous.

The direction of the works was entrusted to Francesco Angelo Amadio known as Scheggino and to the architect Andrea Vici . A final unification took place in 1913 : the adjacent Palazzo Brancaleoni was incorporated into the town hall to increase the work spaces.

Until the early eighties it housed the government offices, the registry office and other services open to the public, as well as the art gallery on the main floor.

The recent structural restructuring completed in 2007 has made it possible to safeguard and enhance the historical-architectural aspects, to redevelop the spaces and to break down the architectural barriers .

Other departments and services are located in various nearby locations such as the Ancaiani palace , the Mauri palace and the Genga palace .

Steps up to a sculpture - Spoleto 1962 - Nino Franchina.

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Taken in: Italy / Umbria / Spoleto / (fomer) Roman Catholic Diocese of Spoleto (show map)

Taken on: May 15, 2023

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