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XVI century building erected by Nicolò Crepadoni assembling some older buildings (maybe the “altana” terrace still preserves the basis of one of the ancient towers, higher than the city wall). Part of the original frescoes can still be seen downstairs and at the first floor, in the reading room of Belluno’s Public Library. Inside, under…
Typical XVI century building, with its structure with a high arcade on the ground floor and the double three-windows balcony on the upper floors. The façade, under the highest balcony, still preserves some fragments of the original fresco decorations, partly repainted by Giovanni De Min in the mid XIX century, but again cancelled in 1903.…
Started in 1501, after the preaching of the Servite friar Elia da Brescia, the palace was completed in 1531. It it still shows its original street door strengthened with iron bands and part of the inside fresco paintings, once covering every internal wall. On the façade the symbol of the “Monte”, a German statue of…
On the site of an older lodge built in 1347, the branch of the Costantini family arriving from Cadore valley to Belluno built its palace between 1471 (as testified by the coat of arms of the venetian Rector Benedetto Priuli carved in the capitol of the corner column) and 1473 (on the façade there is…
XV century palace, built by Giovanni Persicini in 1447, as recorded by an inscription carved in gothic characters on one of the capitols of the ground floor arcades. The building is located at the crossroad that divided the four quarters of the old town, called “Cros de Cal” (street crossing) which gave the name to…
Built at first as a Franciscan monastery, for a community recorded in Belluno since the XIII century. The construction was later completely rebuilt beside the nearby church of St Peter, erected in 1326, and again thoroughly readapted in 1750. Inside the best testimony of the architectural evolution of the complex are the two cloisters: the…
Private building dating to the XV century, partly rebuilt on several occasions, following higher noble models of the upper city. The façade still shows large parts of the original fresco decorations painted at the beginning of XVI century. The author is unknown and shows some artistic weaknesses, in the composition and in the rendering of…
One of the last private buildings of the XV century city, still showing a little part of the frescoes that used to cover the façade, according to a decorative urban pattern tipical of the venetian mainland, from Feltre to Conegliano, Treviso and even Trento. Traditionally is known to have been the house of the noble…
Today’s building is the result of a XVIII century intervention that assembled the XV and XVI century houses of the Coraulo family (there is still the coat of arms over the entrance portal) and Bolzanio family, whence came the two greatest bellunese Renaissance scholars, the Franciscan friar Urbano Bolzanio (1442-1524), who in 1497 published in…
On a tower-house of the XIV century that traditionally belonged to Gaia da Camino (same name, but not the lady quoted by Dante in his “Divina Commedia”, Purgatory XVI, 140), the Persico family built its palace during XV century and enriched it between 1496 and 1506 with a stone façade decorated with sculptured mythological figures…