palazzo, plurifamiliare

This is a three-storey apartment block of a type familiar across Italian towns, its long axis running east-west. The plan is polygonal, which may be dictated by a street corner or an irregular medieval plot. The structure is plain, even severe: rendered stone walls, wooden floors, a flat roof with a terrace. There are no flourishes, no architectural pretensions. At ground level, three doorways serve the street: two are low-arched, for shops; a third, a full round arch in stone, leads to the upper floors. Above, three balconies per floor align with the ground-floor openings. The stone thresholds are moulded, the railings are iron, the window frames are wood. The façade ends with a simple stone cornice, a cornicione alla romanella, and above that, the iron balustrade of the terrace. The whole is in poor repair, which lends it a certain melancholy dignity, a building that has done its work without fuss, and now shows its age.

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