Palazzo Manselli

This is a palazzo of sober, regular design: a square plan, two storeys above the ground floor, its stonework laid in courses and rendered over. The roof is a hybrid, part flat, part a simple single pitch. The rusticated portal is the main event on the façade. It leads through a groin-vaulted entrance hall into a courtyard, where a two-storey portico runs along one side. This arcaded remnant is all that survives of the original convent that once occupied the site.

On Vico Porta Guglielmo, a second portal marks the former chapel. Its stucco-decorated lintel is crowned by a broken arch and a niche that still bears an inscription. The whole building speaks of adaptation: a religious house repurposed, its disciplined geometry and layered history now turned to secular life. Nothing is hidden, nothing overstated, just the quiet, stuccoed bones of an older world.

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