ex mattatoio comunale

The former municipal slaughterhouse is a blunt, functional block of stone and brick, its form dictated entirely by purpose. A main rectangular body is joined by a squarer adjunct, the whole mass stepping down from three storeys in the north-east to a single level at the centre, before rising again to two in the south-west. Two internal stairs link the floors. A simple pitched roof of clay tiles covers both volumes, though part of it, above the main portal, has partially collapsed. The façades are rendered; their windows and doors are framed in stone. The principal entrance is a round-arched portal, its mouldings providing the only decorative gesture on this otherwise austere, workmanlike structure. These municipal buildings were once common across Italian towns, their sober architecture a statement of civic utility rather than beauty. Here, the crumbling roof and empty spaces speak not of the past’s industry, but of its quiet, unremarkable abandonment.

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