This small and elegant building belonged to the noble Sardi family, originally from Sardinia.   They subsequenly settled first in Pisa, then in Naples, and moved to Sulmona during the 15th century following an appointment as bishop of the local diocese. The house was probably built or acquired around 1420 and then restored and enlarged, as we can see by the...

The building is characterised by an elegant and complex layout on the facade in four overlapping horizontal areas and embellished with decorations of different colours and materials. The grey stone basement, which houses the rectangular openings to the underground rooms, acts as a counterpoint to the light-coloured horizontal plaster above, which stops at the...

The building at number 23 Viale Patini is on two floors and has three arched openings on each floor. On the ground floor the front door, framed by an architectural order that, albeit in simplified form, still denotes the presence of a traditional syntax  with the presence of a capital and fluted shaft.  It has a depressed arch topped by floral ornamentation with ledges above the balcony. In the...

The façade, entirely plastered with the exception of strong cantonals in hewn stone, is on three levels that are characterised by different types of openings and decorations.  On the ground floor, the entrance arch is framed by Ionic pilasters embellished with panels and a sideways pattern of lobes in the late Baroque style.  Above the architectural orders and the keystone...

The building faces Piazza Garibaldi with the imposing façade on three main levels: the ground floor with shops featuring stone portals and segmental arches and tiled windows.   The main floor, banded on the lower section by cornices and sills on which rest the impressive gabled mixtilinear windows.  On the second floor elegant rectangular windows with broken curvilinear gables with scrolls...

The building belonged to the noble family of Capograssi who moved from Salerno to Sulmona in 1319 in order to follow the bishop Andrea, who acquired it in the mid-14th century. It was renovated and expanded several times over the years, perhaps incorporating the former home of the Sulmonese Meliorati family. It was to this old family that Cosmato di Gentile belonged.  He was born...

Situated in the district of Porta Manaresca, the building dates back to the 16th century, but was seriously compromised in the earthquake of 1706. As we can see by the rooms on the ground floor of Via Roma, in the rooms beyond the Durazzesco arch adjacent to the ancient church of St. Thomas and in the underground rooms located along Vico dell’Arco, the building would have been quite sizeable. ...

The palace that today covers a vast area between Corso Ovidio, Vico del Vecchio, Vico dell’Arco and Via Roma, is the result of successive building periods. It acts as an important cornerstone landmark of the city as it sits at the point of the high medieval city walls, the ancient Porta Salvatore, the church of San Francesco della Scarpa, the Fontana del Vecchio and the Medieval Aqueduct...

According to the inscription on the corner cantonal, the building was erected in 1484 by the Venetian Giovanni delle Palle, citizen of Sulmona and merchant. Probably the inscription relates to a reconstruction to repair the damage caused by the earthquake of 1456, which modified the upper floor. Presumably he was one Master Simone, an architect from Venice,...

The building is among the most significant of the Abruzzese Baroque and shows stylistic influences from Rome reinterpreted by local workers.   It also seems plausible to assume in this case that the stonemasons came from the nearby mountain village of Pescocostanzo. The architectural and historical value of the building is expressed primarily in the facade along Corso Ovidio. Although it...

Built in the early 16th century - as could be read until some time ago on the dated frieze of an internal door - it was recently the subject of an in-depth study that has clarified its origins and ownership.  It was first attributed to the Meliorati family by Ludovico Magagnini but now has been assigned to the Liberati family. In the light of the new research,...

Located in the historical centre of Sulmona, Palazzo Mazzara is one of the most significant architectural examples of the 18th-century city which rose from the ruins of the terrible earthquake in 1706. Built on the structure of an existing building, probably from the 16th century, Palazzo Mazzara has architectural motifs and decorative baroque features which characterize the buildings of the...

The main front with three orders is characterised by the seamless sequence along the median vertical axis up from the monumental entrance on the ground floor via the only balcony on the main floor to the window on the top level. The arched doorway is framed by a pair of pilasters supporting a classical entablature with triglyphs, surmounted by balcony ledges with horizontally crowned...

The building has an imposing two-storey facade on Via Quatrario. On the ground floor, there are  large tile windows framed in moulded stone with the door off-centre compared to the median axis of the facade.   Four of the six windows now act as fanlights to the stone doorways which were opened later to allow easier use of the premises on the ground floor, by making them accessible from the...

The layout of the original building and some other details are known thanks to the description by Augusto Campana  which was based on a drawing by Peter Piccirilli. The main entrance was located near the church of San Francesco della Scarpa, on the current Via Mazara, while the side elevation looked out over Corso Ovidio.  Here, there was a porch on the ground floor with two...

The building, whose original structure is not easy to understand, seems to consists of three rectangular sections, perpendicular to each other, and divided into either two or three levels. It has two entrances: the main one at the end of Vico Sanita - which leads off Corso Ovidio - and the other on Via Solimo. It was originally a truly magnificent and sumptuous residence,...

The historic home, much altered over time and greatly transformed, respectively, is structured on three floors in the main elevation and four in the south facades (Piazza Garibaldi) and east (along via Marselli), due to the difference in height of about 5 meters between share via Angeloni and that of the great basin of the square. The atrium, covered by a barrel vault with lunettes, introduces...

The first historical information about the building, situated in the district of Porta Salvatoris, dates back to 1706, when the old 15th century building survived the earthquake of that year almost unscathed.

Built in the 15th century, this is one of the most significant examples in Sulmona of an aristocratic residence.  There is an inscription on the side of the main entrance, together with the name of the craftsman, which also indicates the date of the door’s construction: Master Pietro da Como in 1449 . Believed to have always been owned by the Tabassi barons, as shown by the presence of their...

There are no traces of the original building in the current structure which consists of a floor plan organised around a central courtyard and a small single-nave church, on the right-hand side of the building. The facade consists of two overlapping layers, separated by a high-end moulding, and concludes with an attic with elliptical openings. The middle section is accentuated...