Palazzo Giordano

Palazzo Giordano presents as a sober, three-storey courtyard building, its load-bearing walls rendered in plastered stone. The roof is a hipped arrangement of sloping planes, and the front façade, a later addition, is dominated by a loggia of broad stone arches. Beneath these run a row of stone slit openings and, lower still, a projecting line of stone spouts, functional details that give the elevation a certain defensive severity.

The main entrance is a round-arched portal built of ashlars, some carved with a distinctive alternating pattern: a hollow-and-roll moulding beside a protruding acanthus leaf. Above the keystone, the Giordano family crest appears in relief: a double-headed eagle bearing a cross, all under a jutting crown and surrounded by foliage. A small stone bell-gable rises from the roof slope. The building terminates in a traditional ‘romanella’ cornice. Inside, the palazzo contains eight dwellings, a shop, two storerooms and two carriage houses, a compact, practical urban complex, far more workaday than its ornate doorway suggests.

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