Palazzo Della Ragione (other)
Palazzo della Ragione may refer to: * Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, palace of justice building in Padua * , a broletto (place of assembly) in Bergamo * Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, a historic building and former judicial seat * , on the Piazza dei Signori city square * Basilica Palladiana, a Renaissance building in Vicenza originally known as Palazzo della Ragione See also * Arengario In Italy, an arengario (also spelled arrengario or arengo; pl.: ''arengari'', ''arrengari'', ''arenghi'') is a government building in various historic periods. The word comes from the verb "arringare" ("to address"), as arengari usually have balcon ...

Palazzo Della Ragione, Padua
The Palazzo della Ragione is a medieval market hall, town hall and palace of justice building in Padua, in the Veneto region of Italy. The upper floor was dedicated to the town and justice administration; while the ground floor still hosts the historical covered market of the city. The palace separates the two market squares of Piazza delle Erbe from Piazza dei Frutti. It is popularly called "il Salone" (''the big Hall''). It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Padua's 14th-century fresco cycles (since 2021). Details The building, with its great hall on the upper floor hence the name "Salone" ("big Hall"), is believed to be one of the largest medieval halls still extant; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length 81.5m, its breadth 27m, and its height 24 m; the walls are covered with allegorical frescoes. The building stands on arches, and the upper storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, that was i ...
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Bergamo
Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km (43 mi) from Garda and Maggiore. The Bergamo Alps (''Alpi Orobie'') begin immediately north of the city. With a population of around 120,000, Bergamo is the fourth-largest city in Lombardy. Bergamo is the seat of the Province of Bergamo, which counts over 1,103,000 residents (2020). The metropolitan area of Bergamo extends beyond the administrative city limits, spanning over a densely urbanized area with slightly less than 500,000 inhabitants. The Bergamo metropolitan area is itself part of the broader Milan metropolitan area, home to over 8 million people. The city of Bergamo is composed of an old walled core, known as ''Città Alta'' ("Upper Town"), nestled within a system of hills, and the modern expan ...
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Palazzo Della Ragione, Milan
The Palazzo della Ragione ("Palace of Wisdom" literally) is a historic building of Milan, Italy, located in Piazza Mercanti, facing the Loggia degli Osii. It was built in the 13th century and originally served as a broletto (i.e., an administrative building) as well as a judicial seat. As it was the second broletto to be built in Milan, it is also known as the Broletto Nuovo ("new broletto"). The palace is decorated with a relief representing Oldrado da Tresseno (podestà of Milan and fierce prosecutor of the Cathar heretics), and the bas relief of the ''scrofa semilanuta'' ("half-woolly sow"), which has been object of much controversy among scholars of the foundation and origins of Milan. History The building was constructed between 1228 and 1233 for podestà Oldrado da Tresseno. It maintained a central role in the administrative and public life of Milan until the late 18th century. In 1773, under Empress Maria Theresa, it was restored and enlarged to serve as legal archives ...
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Piazza Dei Signori, Verona
Piazza dei Signori is a city square in Verona, Italy. Buildings around the square * Palazzo della Ragione, Verona (Palazzo del Comune) * Palazzo Domus Nova * Casa della Pietà * Palazzo di Cansignorio * Palazzo del Podestà, Verona * Loggia del Consiglio Palazzo Domus Nova.jpg, Piazza dei Signori (Verona) - Casa della Pietà.jpg, Vérone - Loggia del Consiglio.jpg, Palazzo Cansignorio VR.jpg, Palazzo del Podestà (Verona) - Maine Gate.jpg, ''Palazzo del Podestà'' Maine gate Monument to Dante (Verona).jpg, Monument to Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ... Monument to Dante The monument to Dante Alighieri is a statue representing him, made in memory of his 6th centenary from his birth. When Dante was exiled from Florence he was a long guest in Veron ...
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Basilica Palladiana
The Basilica Palladiana is a Renaissance building in the central Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, north-eastern Italy. The most notable feature of the edifice is the loggia, which shows one of the first examples of what have come to be known as the Palladian window, designed by a young Andrea Palladio, whose work in architecture was to have a significant effect on the field during the Renaissance and later periods. Since 1994, the Basilica Palladiana, together with other Palladian buildings in and around Vicenza, has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site " City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto". History The building was originally constructed in the 15th century and was known as the Palazzo della Ragione, having been designed by Domenico da Venezia to include two pre-existing public palazzi. The building, which was in the Gothic style, served as the seat of government and also housed a number of shops on the ground floor. The -tall Torre Bissara precedes th ...
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