Superb architectural expression of the communal power, Palazzo dei Priori is one of the most majestic monuments produced by medieval civilization `s Central Italy. Remarkable for the `composite article, The massiveness of the volumes and asymmetries `s plant was built and enlarged over a yard that lasted from 1293 to the 1443. The Palace is home to the City of Perugia and the National Gallery Entries Umbria.La facade facing the square is crossed by thin horizontal frames and has a stairway in a fan, the early twentieth century, through which you enter the Sala dei Notari. The portal is flanked by two three-light windows and surmounted by two shelves on which stand out copies of the Guelph lion and griffin Perugia, whose respective originals are preserved in the Hall of the City Council; even higher unfolds a row of five triple-lancet windows and an elegant embattled cornice. To the right of the stairs is a portico consists of three arches of different sizes: from the pulpit that insinuates itself between the first two were made known to the people of the municipal decrees. The environment inside, former seat of the popular assemblies, became, in 1582, the Hall `s Art of Notaries. The wide rectangular space has a vaulted ceiling supported by eight massive arches of Romanesque. The composite paintings on the walls, depicting tales esopiche, Bible stories, philosophical maxims, astrological and heraldic symbols, `cultural axis is reconnected to Rome-Assisi inside of which are outstanding figures of absolute importance as the Master of Farneto and the so-called Expressionist Master of Santa Clara. The side of the Palazzo dei Priori along a large portion of Corso Vannucci is surprisingly harmonious and, despite showing signs of the various phases of construction; the first and second floor unfolds an uninterrupted sequence of wonderful `triple-lancet windows topped, as in the façade, by a rectangular cornice with battlements. On the side you open the main door, of 1346, the complicated symbolic decoration, characterized by elements phytomorphic and columniferous; copies of the statues in the lunette of St Laurence, Ercolano and Costanzo (this latter is the Patron Saint of the City), the originals are kept in the National Gallery. On the ground floor, with access from Corso Vannucci, are the Board and the Board of the Merchants Exchange, originally offices of the two major medieval guilds. On the first floor, at the interior of the City Council Hall, we find an interesting fresco by Pinturicchio, “Madonna and Child between two angels” and the `original “Justice Stone”, while in the Hall of Pope Julius III frescoes and oil paintings.

Accessibility

The offices of the municipal administration and the spaces are of course provided with the means and tools (lifts, toilets) that make them fully accessible and independently.

Gallery

Map

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