Palazzo Ianigro

At the highest point of the old town, this palazzo rises some fifteen metres above the irregular, stone-paved streets that curl around it. Its plan is irregular, its perimeter walls of squared stone, and its timber floors support a roof of clay tiles laid in the traditional double layer. The masonry is worth a pause: blocks of worked stone, set in regular courses of roughly equal height, their horizontal beds aligned with the stone’s natural bedding plane. This careful, pseudo-isodomic arrangement gives the facade a quiet, repetitive dignity. A typical “romanella” cornice runs beneath the eaves. From the street, a round-headed arch of dressed stone marks the entrance to the inner courtyard, a threshold that separates the public space outside from the palazzo’s private domain. The building speaks of solidity and craft, of a time when a house was built to last, and to announce the standing of those who lived within.

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