Palazzo D'Uva-Notte

This palazzo is a dense, four-storey quadrilateral of a building, with two semi-basement levels and a modestly projecting eaves cornice. Its structure encloses an internal courtyard, incorporates a city gate, and includes its own chapel. The masonry is of exposed stone, partially plastered, while the access portals are cut from moulded stone, their arches either round or depressed. Window sills and balcony thresholds are also stone, with iron railings. The front façade, braced by two spur buttresses, leans against a pre-existing fortification, evidenced by the pointed-arched city gate and the vaulted underpass. The southern rear elevation, to the right of the chapel, features a continuous balcony; to the chapel’s left is the exit of a passageway. The building is a palimpsest, its later residential fabric grafted onto an older defensive core, a common enough story in Italian towns where medieval walls were absorbed into later domestic architecture.

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