Palazzo Spicciati

Palazzo Spicciati

This palazzo’s plan is a curious polygon, its two main facades meeting at an obtuse angle rather than a right one. Three storeys tall, the building’s most striking feature is its ground floor, reached through an elaborate stone portal that opens onto not one but two courtyards. A short staircase, flanked by stone elements at its base, leads up to the residential quarters. Below, the service rooms survive: cellar, stable and granary, speaking to a self-sufficient household economy. The structure is of rendered stone masonry, with ceilings of steel beams and terracotta blocks, and a wooden roof clad in traditional curved tiles. The main facade is punctuated by a fine limestone portal with a round arch, plus two lower brick doorways with segmental arches. Upper floors have windows with limestone surrounds. The building now contains eight flats, two warehouses, two shops and a garage, a typical Italian palazzo’s quiet evolution from noble residence to urban hive.

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