Palazzo del Podesta

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The Palazzo del Podestà is a civic building in Bologna, northern Italy.
The edifice was built around 1200 as the seat of the local podestà, the various functionaries of the commune. It stands on the Piazza Maggiore, near the Palazzo Communale and facing the Basilica of St. Petronio. Proving insufficient for the massive participation of the people in the city’s government, it was in 1245 flanked by the Palazzo Re Enzo, over which stands the Torre dell’Arengo, whose bell was used to call the people during emergencies.
The Palazzo del Podesta is a long building, with a large hall on the upper floor. The lower floor is a double open arcade, the so-called Voltone del Podestà, through which pass two lanes of shops.
In 1453 Aristotile Fioravanti replaced the bell and reconstructed the original Gothic facade in the Renaissance Style by order of Giovanni II Bentivoglio. In the Voltone, in 1525, were placed the terracotta statues of the city’s protectors, Sts. Petronius, Proculus, Dominic and Francis, all by Alfonso Lombardi.
In the 16th-18th centuries the Palazzo was used as theatre. In the 20th century it was frescoed by Adolfo de Carolis.

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