Town Hall

Designed between 1886 and 1887 by the engineer Giuseppe Ryolo on an area obtained from the demolition of the eastern part of the former convent of the Carmelites, it is an example of neoclassical architecture of the time.
The high base of the Palazzo dell’Aquila (so called in reference to the civic heraldic emblem), the distribution of openings and the use of stone on the wall give a chiaroscuro movement underlined by three emerging bodies and large arches that verticalize the triple protrusion of the central body, concluded by a triangular attic with clock, and the two side sections.

The facade is adorned with celebratory inscriptions. Inside, two large steps lead to the upper floors. Renaissance stucco can still be seen in some rooms while the vault of the town hall, frescoed by Menotti Bruno in 1897, was destroyed in the bombing of 1943. Among the artistic memorabilia of the town hall is the marble bust of Umberto I signed by Francesco Greco in 1881. The stylized façade behind and inside the old cloister is punctuated by slender lesenas decorated with stone ionic capitals.