We move onto Via Mazzini and the Trivium. A few steps, from the edge of the square Giacomo Matteotti, we lay eyes on Via Cesare Agostini, dominated by a red brick bridge in the said Arc of Polinori, the name of the family residing in the eighteenth and nineteenth century building in the corner on the left. Inside were profane frescoes of the fifteenth century, now lost. On the opposite side, three openings decorated with architectural motifs and goticizzanti, below the sill of the windows, terracotta coats of Trinci and Beccafumi.
In the sequence of buildings that can be seen right on the way Agostini, stands out Palace Trasciatti and, opposite, Helmets palace Pandolfi.
We continue to Via Mazzini and we note, on the right, palazzo Barugi, only palace Foligno visible from all four sides.
Sull'imbocco Via dei Franceschi, that opens before, it signals the Palazzo Salvini Mancha. Still in the Franceschi, on the right side, exceeded the beautiful portal of the house 12, is the Palace Fountain.
Resulted in Piazza San Francesco, where, in striking analogy with the square of the Republic, space is dominated, on one side by buildings and civil, other, the monumental Church of St. Francis and the adjacent Oratory of the Banner. In the square, centrally located, the Palace of the Chamber of Commerce, oggi sede del tribunale di Perugia, sezione di Foligno.
Let us go into Via Benedetto Cairoli, on which stands the Palace Lezi Marchetti.
Even our right to proceed on Via Cairoli and we take, just beyond the left, Via Madonna del Giglio where you can admire the façade of Church of St. Catherine.
Let us via S. Catherine, after which we can admire one of the four access, The most usual, to the Park of Canapés, city's green lung in the ancient city walls. We cross the park on the left admiring the medieval Tower Montanara and, for the secondary access, diametrically opposite to that of our access, we emerge near Port St. Mary, better known today as leads Todi. We walk the path that opens on the right, Via Santa Maria Infraportas which leads to Piazza San Domenico, where you can admire the façade of the former convent church of San Domenico, recently transformed into Auditorium, designed by Franco Antonelli.
The grandeur of the fourteenth-century façade of San Domenico, counterpoints the porch that protects the entrance of the nearby Church of Santa Maria Infraportas.
Among the civil buildings bordering the square are to be reported to the Renaissance House of Acts, and Sparrows palace (at the center of the vault, in a room on the ground floor, today's business, fresco with a coat of arms, unidentified, surrounded by female figures; on the right side elevation of the building, you can see what remains of eighteenth-century kiosk), in a frontal position with respect to St. Dominic.
We take again, this side, Via Mazzini and we see another building, known as Dear Palazzo Spinola, with portal decorated with stone cornices surmounted by a balcony with iron balustrade. In the immediate succession Benedetti building and, over, the Palace Lattanzi (that stands out for its elegant windows triangular pediment with flexible sides).
We arrive now at a crossroads, said in the past Source of Trivium and then Source of the Trivium (Modern fountain with metal). Take for Via Aurelio Saffi, where you can admire the façade of the unfinished Baroque church of San Carlo, currently used as a theater.
A look, opposite the Palace Novellis.
Via Saffi and moving backwards, Pass the church of San Carlo, we left because of Mercy, so named from the oratory of the Misericordia confraternal.
We pass Piazza Matteotti and return to the streets of the Republic.
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