Palazzo Trotta

On a site that drops away from the town’s core into the landscape beyond, Palazzo Trotta adapts its form to the slope with a quiet pragmatism. Its ground plan is an uncertain quadrilateral, almost a trapezoid, and the building rises to two storeys on the western, urban side, while opening into five levels, one of them underground, on the eastern flank. The load-bearing structure is rendered limestone rubble; the floors are flat, made of iron, concrete, or brick; and the roof is a hipped affair of curved tiles. The main façade is restrained, its decoration sober, save for a Rococo-style portal dated 1807. Stone corbels beneath the windows and balconies provide the only flourish. Inside, the palazzo now houses two apartments and a small hospitality operation, a modest afterlife for a building that once wore its 18th-century taste lightly.

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