Sunday 19 June 2011

Palazzo dei Notai, Italy


Palazzo dei Notai is a palace in Bologna, Italy. Facing the Piazza Maggiore, it was built in 1381 by the city's notaries guild as their seat, under design by Berto Cavalletto and Lorenzo da Bagnomarino.


Another section facing Palazzo d'Accursio was remade by Bartolomeo Fioravanti around 1437. It was again restored in 1908 by Alfonso Rubbiani.


The interior has 15th century frescoes. On the Southern side of Piazza Maggiore one findsPalazzo dei Notai, built beteen the XIV and the XV centuries, with its merlon facade and its double-arched windows, with its small white marble columns, it was built by the architect Andrea di Vincenzo.


On the facade there is the coat-of-arms of the Notaries (on a red background there are three ink-wells and quill feathers). The Palazzo dei Notai was built in two successive phases: the part which faces the Basilica di San Petroniois the oldest whilst the part that faces the Palazzo d'Accursio is more recent.

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