Palazzo Pomarici

Palazzo Pomarici is a sober seventeenth-century construction, its two separate building blocks divided by a street called Via Museo and linked by an aerial passage. Enter through the atrium, and you find yourself in a courtyard, with access to the rooms that open onto it, among them, a crypt. An L-shaped staircase leads up to the chambers on the upper floor. This is a palazzo of the kind that proliferated across Italy in the 1600s, when noble families built themselves urban strongholds that were part residence, part statement of power. The design is unshowy, even severe, but the logic of its layout, the separation of public and private, the hidden connections, the subterranean space, speaks of a world where status was measured in stone and discretion. One passes through the atrium as generations of residents did, and the building’s quiet, functional elegance remains its own best document.

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