Palazzo Pretorio

palazzo pretorio

Palazzo Pretorio is the ancient town hall of Prato, which stands in Piazza del Comune to the front of Town Hall. The palace was built around the thirteenth and fourteenth century by the merger of three different palaces, which were derived from various spaces to accommodate the premises of Podesta, the local judiciary and prisons. Through diversification of the buildings themselves and materials used in each building is possible to distinguish the shapes of buildings primitive. The oldest part is the house-tower still distinguishable right dating from the thirteenth century, possession of the family of Pipini, consists of an arcade on the ground floor with pillars of alberese, and acquired in 1284 by the master of the people of Fresh Frescobaldi to include the current municipal government. The left side dates from the fourteenth century and has eight elegant mullioned windows and a tabernacle where until at least 1799 was kept a fourteenth-century statue of Roberto d'Anjou. During the sixteenth century there was a collapse of the structure with the consequent restoration of the palace with the addition of a new battlements and a campaniletto sailing, seeking to crown the building. At the end of the nineteenth century was given the proposed demolition dell'edifico even if the proposal was rejected, deciding in 1909 to restore the building, indicating the availability to take on the appearance of origins. Since 1948 in the rooms of the palace has hosted the Civic Museum, which collects many works of art ranging from the Middle Ages to. Currently under renovation, some of the works are exhibited at the premises of the Museum of Painting Wall, located in San Domenico.

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