Palazzo Comunale (Alcamo)
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The Town hall of Alcamo ( province of Trapani), also called ''Il Municipio'', is a public historical building located in
Piazza Ciullo Piazza Ciullo is the main square of Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy. Being located in the very town centre, it is a meeting place for people and an attraction for important events, especially for teenagers. History According ...
, in the town centre of Alcamo.


History

Owing to the continuous changes of the municipal seat, in 1842 the pro-tempore Lord Mayor, dottor Giovanni Ferrando, bought a warehouse in the main street, in order to build the
Town Hall In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...
there.Roberto Calia: I Palazzi dell'aristocrazia e della borghesia alcamese; Alcamo, Carrubba, 1997 The choice for this place was due to its favourable position. The construction, after the project of the architect Gaspare Di Giovanni, started in 1843; later, the engineer Francesco Palermo, assisted by the engineers Greco and Severino, took over him.P.M. Rocca: di alcuni antichi edifici di Alcamo; Palermo, tip. Castellana-Di Stefano, 1905 p.63 The building was completed in 1865 and the following year they settled the municipal offices there; the palace was completely restored in 1984.


Description

The façade is in the neoclassical style: on the ground floor there are two windows with
arch An arch is a vertical curved structure that spans an elevated space and may or may not support the weight above it, or in case of a horizontal arch like an arch dam, the hydrostatic pressure against it. Arches may be synonymous with vaul ...
es and the main front door. On the first and second floor there are three balconies with stone corbels and galleries, dominated by a pediment and a wrought iron parapet. On both sides of the central balcony of the second floor there are two tondos: on the right one there is an eagle, which represents the coat of arms of the town. The façade is completed by the
eaves The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building. The eaves form an overhang to throw water clear of the walls and may be highly decorated as part of an architectural styl ...
; the entrance has a portal, made with travertine, with two side lesenes; in the entrance hall there is a
barrel vault A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. The curves are ...
and on the walls there are the engravings of some drawings realized by the painter
Gino Patti Gino Patti (1925–1993) was a surrealist painter of the 20th century; he was of noble heritage and native from Alcamo, in Sicily. Biography He was born in Alcamo, where he attended the secondary school; he was lazy and undisciplined, because ...
in 1962: on the right there are some works of the town, such as Church of Saint Thomas,
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, the
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and the Contrast "Rosa fresca aulentissima" by Cielo d'Alcamo, while, on the left, you can see some houses of Alcamo. To reach the first floor, you have to walk through an entrance with an arch and four marble columns; above the arch there is a plaque with an inscription in memory of the proclamation of the Italian Republic (1946); on the left side another plaque (placed in 1875) commemorates the plebiscites held in 1860 for the annexation to the Kingdom of Italy, and, on the right, a third one in memory of the citizens from Alcamo who died in 1860 during the revolutionary movements (Giuseppe Fazio, Liborio Vallone and Francesco Casarubea). On the two sides of the main balcony of the first floor, in 1910 (on the 50th anniversary of these movements), they put two plaques in memory of the enterprise carried out by the two brothers Stefano and Giuseppe Triolo barons of Sant'Anna: the one on the left commemorates the rebellion which took place on April 6, and the right one, the heroism of the two Triolo brothers.


References


Sources

* Roberto Calia: I Palazzi dell'aristocrazia e della borghesia alcamese; Alcamo, Carrubba, 1997 * Carlo Cataldo: Guida storico-artistica dei beni culturali di Alcamo, Calatafimi, Castellammare del Golfo, Salemi e Vita, Sarograf-Alcamo (1982) * P.M. Rocca: di alcuni antichi edifici di Alcamo; Palermo, tip. Castellana-Di Stefano, 1905 p. 63


See also

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Ex Loggia Comunale The building of the ex Loggia Comunale is located in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani. History The citizens of Alcamo called ‘’loggia’’ the Town Hall; this custom was common in many Sicilian towns, and is also proved by several not ...
* Giuseppe Triolo *
Gino Patti Gino Patti (1925–1993) was a surrealist painter of the 20th century; he was of noble heritage and native from Alcamo, in Sicily. Biography He was born in Alcamo, where he attended the secondary school; he was lazy and undisciplined, because ...
Buildings and structures in Alcamo Buildings and structures completed in the 19th century 19th-century establishments in Italy 19th-century architecture in Italy