Complesso monumentale di Piazza Matteotti, plateatico ed edifici

Piazza Matteotti is a study in disciplined Baroque urbanity, a quadrangular space of measured grandeur. The heart of the composition is a raised stone platform, a plateatico, dignified by a fountain attributed to Giovanni da Udine and a column bearing the Virgin. Around this central stage, the ground falls away to a sea of cobbles.

Three sides of the piazza are defined by disciplined porticoed buildings. The southern arcade is a particular treasure, preserving original mural paintings from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; one fresco of Saint Bartholomew is older still, a relic of the late 1300s. The western prospect is dominated by the church of San Giacomo, one of Udine’s most ancient, and the Cappella delle Anime. Here too stands Casa Ottelio-Giacomelli, the cobbled square beside it, and a fifteenth-century well. It is a public room of stone and history, where the city’s layers are worn into the very paving.

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