palazzo Puglisi Cosentino

The palazzo is a two-storey building of sober, prismatic form, its ground plan describing an L-shape with wings of equal length set at an obtuse angle. This kind of urban palace, typical of the Italian nobility, was designed to project status through ordered, symmetrical interiors rather than exuberant facades. Here, the south-west wing’s volumetric clarity is interrupted by a later raised addition, set back from the main front. On the ground floor, this same wing contains an entrance hall vaulted with a system of arches and lunette barrel-vaults, leading to offices and living spaces covered by cross-vaults, and to the staircase. The stair itself, tucked into the neighbouring building, has small cross-vaults on the landings and barrel vaults over the flights. Upstairs, the principal floor, an enfilade of salons resolves the main facade compositionally; the most impressive, beneath the projecting tribune, is covered by a lunette cross-vault. The other two have pavilion vaults. Bedrooms and services occupy the north-west wing.

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