Palazzo Scarabeo e Porta urbica

This palazzo, rising over two storeys above a ground floor, presents a rectilinear, rectangular plan of satisfying regularity. Its masonry tells a story of accretion: squared stone blocks give way to banded rubblework, later smoothed over with plaster. The roof, a hipped affair with pitched slopes, caps the whole with geometric composure. Within, the building is divided into two separate dwellings, a pragmatic arrangement typical of such urban structures. A porticoed gateway, the porta urbica, punctuates the façade, a remnant of the city’s defensive or ceremonial fabric. The building thus straddles two worlds: the private, domestic interior and the public, civic threshold. It is a quiet, sturdy piece of urban history, one that wears its alterations without apology.

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