Casa Niccolò Piccinni

In the old quarter, Casa Niccolò Piccinni engages in a quiet architectural dialogue with the street, its face to piazza Mercantile a modest slice, its longer flank turned to vico Fiscardi. This is a palazzo built by accretion, its present form a palimpsest of interventions.

The ground floor, entered from the piazza, contains four interconnecting rooms. A staircase in vico Fiscardi rises to the first floor, where five rooms repeat the pattern. The second floor, reached by ramps around a square light-well, mirrors the arrangement below and leads to the roof terrace. The terrace itself tells the story: three distinct levels correspond to three sections of the building’s long body. The core is a surviving medieval quadrangular tower. A later addition, from the second half of the nineteenth century, attaches to the piazza side. The third section, harder to date, likely resulted from roofing over an ancient alley; at its far end, traces of a passage arch hint at a former link to the street behind. Recently restored, the house has been returned to the city.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.