Palazzo dei Priori

The Palazzo dei Priori: the most important, the most beautiful, the biggest palazzo in Perugia! How could we have never talked about it?

One of the biggest and most magnificient architectonic expressions of the Italian medieval population. The articulation of the volumes, the assymetries and the irregolarity of the foundation shows its long building phase, starting from 1293-97 until 1443, altogether with the use of preexisting structures. Nowadays, the palazzo is the city headquarter and Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria.

Here above, the front oriented to the Corso Vanucci shows the successive building interventions: at the first level trifore - windows with two arches, line up and above a fabulous repetition of 19 gothic trifore that repeat the below ones. On the same example of repetitions, on the top of the building are standing the becatelli, the cornicione and the merli. (Sorry for the non translation of the last words...)