Description
The Loggia Amulea is the Neo-Gothic palace overlooking Prato della Valle, the largest square in Padua. With the loggia on its façade, it was conceived as a grandstand of honour over the square, for the authorities and for a paying public.
Look at the loggia and the large balcony, with their terracotta decorations inspired by Italian Gothic. In the room next to the balcony, civil weddings are sometimes held.
It stands where the Collegio Amuleo used to be, destroyed by fire in 1822. The architect Giuseppe Jappelli dreamed of a classical loggia here surrounded by coffee rooms, ballrooms, gaming rooms and a theatre: in twenty years nothing came of it.
The project actually built, a cheaper one, was Eugenio Maestri's, presented in 1858. Its Neo-Gothic style, however, left the press, critics and citizens turning up their noses. From 1906 to 1989 the palace was the headquarters of Padua's fire brigade, then it passed to the offices of the city council.
Look at the loggia and the large balcony, with their terracotta decorations inspired by Italian Gothic. In the room next to the balcony, civil weddings are sometimes held.
It stands where the Collegio Amuleo used to be, destroyed by fire in 1822. The architect Giuseppe Jappelli dreamed of a classical loggia here surrounded by coffee rooms, ballrooms, gaming rooms and a theatre: in twenty years nothing came of it.
The project actually built, a cheaper one, was Eugenio Maestri's, presented in 1858. Its Neo-Gothic style, however, left the press, critics and citizens turning up their noses. From 1906 to 1989 the palace was the headquarters of Padua's fire brigade, then it passed to the offices of the city council.