Town hall, Alcamo

Palazzo Comunale
Palazzo Comunale
	The façade
General information
Architectural style	neoclassical
Town or city	Alcamo
Country	Italy
Coordinates	37°58′49″N 12°57′53″E / 37.980165°N 12.96484°E
Construction started	1843
Completed	1865
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Gaspare Di Giovanni
Engineer	Francesco Palermo, Greco and Severino

The Town hall of Alcamo (province of Trapani), also called Il Municipio, is a public historical building located in Piazza Ciullo, in the town centre of Alcamo.

History

Owing to the continuous changes of the municipal seat, in 1842 the pro-tempore

Town Hall there.^[1]

The choice for this place was due to its favourable position. The construction, after the project of the architect Gaspare Di Giovanni, started in 1843; later, the engineer Francesco Palermo, assisted by the engineers Greco and Severino, took over him.[2] The building was completed in 1865 and the following year they settled the municipal offices there; the palace was completely restored in 1984.

Description

The

corbels and galleries, dominated by a pediment and a wrought iron parapet.^[1] On both sides of the central balcony of the second floor there are two tondos: on the right one there is an eagle, which represents the coat of arms

of the town. The façade is completed by the

Church of Saint Thomas, Palazzo De Ballis, the Castle of the Counts of Modica and the Contrast "Rosa fresca aulentissima" by Cielo d'Alcamo

, while, on the left, you can see some houses of Alcamo.

To reach the first floor, you have to walk through an entrance with an arch and four marble

plebiscites held in 1860 for the annexation to the Kingdom of Italy, and, on the right, a third one in memory of the citizens from Alcamo who died in 1860 during the revolutionary movements (Giuseppe Fazio, Liborio Vallone and Francesco Casarubea).^[1]

On the two sides of the main balcony of the first floor, in 1910 (on the 50th anniversary of these movements), they put two plaques in memory of the enterprise carried out by the two brothers Stefano and

heroism of the two Triolo brothers.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Roberto Calia: I Palazzi dell'aristocrazia e della borghesia alcamese; Alcamo, Carrubba, 1997
^ P.M. Rocca: di alcuni antichi edifici di Alcamo; Palermo, tip. Castellana-Di Stefano, 1905 p.63

Sources

Roberto Calia: I Palazzi dell'aristocrazia e della borghesia alcamese; Alcamo, Carrubba, 1997
Carlo Cataldo: Guida storico-artistica dei beni culturali di Alcamo, Calatafimi, Castellammare del Golfo, Salemi e Vita, Sarograf-Alcamo (1982)
P.M. Rocca: di alcuni antichi edifici di Alcamo; Palermo, tip. Castellana-Di Stefano, 1905 p. 63

History

Description

References

Sources

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