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{palazzo_building_name}Palazzo
{palazzo_1}Palazzo Piano Terra
{palazzo_1_desc}When local Italian aristocracy got richer and more powerful, they started constructing their own palaces. Depending on the available financial resources, the construction could be slower or faster. Sometimes it was spread over decades.
{palazzo_1_desc_short}Piano Terra - first stage of construction of a palace.
{palazzo_2}Palazzo Secondo Piano
{palazzo_2_desc}When local Italian aristocracy got richer and more powerful, they started constructing their own palaces. Depending on the available financial resources, the construction could be slower or faster. Sometimes it was spread over decades.
{palazzo_2_desc_short}Primo Piano - second stage of construction of a palace.
{palazzo_3}Palazzo Secondo Piano
{palazzo_3_desc}When local Italian aristocracy got richer and more powerful, they started constructing their own palaces. Depending on the available financial resources, the construction could be slower or faster. Sometimes it was spread over decades.
{palazzo_3_desc_short}Secondo Piano - third stage of construction of a palace.
{palazzo_4}Palazzo
{palazzo_4_desc}When local Italian aristocracy got richer and more powerful, they constructed their palaces inside the cities. At times, these were used also by the communal authorities.
{palazzo_4_desc_short}Italian Palazzo
{palazzo_5}Palazzo Ducale
{palazzo_5_desc}When local Italian aristocracy got richer and more powerful, they constructed their palaces inside the cities. At times, these were used also by the communal authorities. For instance, in Genoa the construction of the Doge's Palace began at the end of the 13th century, when Genoa was gradually consolidating its military and economic power in the Mediterranean. Until 1291 the highest officials and other representatives of the Municipality did not have their own headquarters but were housed in the Archbishop's Palace, or in nearby private homes belonging to the Doria and Fieschi families. In 1291 the "Capitani del popolo" Corrado Doria and Oberto Spinola bought the buildings owned by the Doria family. After a merger with nearby buildings, the palace had taken the name of "ducale" with the appointment in 1339 of the first Genoese doge Simone Boccanegra.
{palazzo_5_desc_short}Palazzo Ducale
{palazzo_6}Pałaso Dogal
{palazzo_6_desc}In 810, Doge Agnello Participazio moved the seat of government from the island of Malamocco to the area of the present-day Rialto, when it was decided a palatium duci (Latin for "ducal palace") should be built. The palace was partially destroyed in the 10th century by a fire and the reconstruction works were undertaken at the behest of Doge Sebastiano Ziani (1172–1178). The new palace was built out of fortresses, one façade to the Piazzetta, the other overlooking the St. Mark's Basin.
{palazzo_6_desc_short}Pałaso Dogal
{palazzo_7}Grande Pałaso Dogal
{palazzo_7_desc}In 810, Doge Agnello Participazio moved the seat of government from the island of Malamocco to the area of the present-day Rialto, when it was decided a palatium duci (Latin for "ducal palace") should be built. The palace was partially destroyed in the 10th century by a fire and the reconstruction works were undertaken at the behest of Doge Sebastiano Ziani (1172–1178). The new palace was built out of fortresses, one façade to the Piazzetta, the other overlooking the St. Mark's Basin. Although only few traces remain of that palace, some Byzantine-Venetian architecture characteristics can still be seen at the ground floor, with the wall base in Istrian stone and some herring-bone pattern brick paving. Political changes in the mid-13th century led to the need to re-think the palace's structure due to the considerable increase in the number of the Great Council's members. The new Gothic palace's constructions started around 1340, focusing mostly on the side of the building facing the lagoon. Only in 1424 did Doge Francesco Foscari decide to extend the rebuilding works to the wing overlooking the Piazzetta, serving as law-courts, and with a ground floor arcade on the outside, open first-floor loggias running along the façade, and the internal courtyard side of the wing, completed with the construction of the Porta della Carta (1442).
{palazzo_7_desc_short}Grande Pałaso Dogal
{palazzo_8}Palazzo Reale
{palazzo_8_desc}When local Italian aristocracy got richer and more powerful, they constructed their palaces inside the cities. At times, these were used also by the communal authorities. For instance, in Genoa the construction of the Doge's Palace began at the end of the 13th century, when Genoa was gradually consolidating its military and economic power in the Mediterranean. Until 1291 the highest officials and other representatives of the Municipality did not have their own headquarters but were housed in the Archbishop's Palace, or in nearby private homes belonging to the Doria and Fieschi families. In 1291 the "Capitani del popolo" Corrado Doria and Oberto Spinola bought the buildings owned by the Doria family. After a merger with nearby buildings, the palace had taken the name of "ducale" with the appointment in 1339 of the first Genoese doge Simone Boccanegra.
{palazzo_8_desc_short}Palazzo Reale
{palazzo_9}Castello Sforzesco
{palazzo_9_desc}The original construction of the palace was ordered by Galeazzo II Visconti, a local nobleman, in second part of 14th century (1358–1370). This castle was known as the Castello di Porta Giova (or Porta Zubia), from the name of a gate in walls located nearby. It was built in the same area of the ancient Roman fortification of Castrum Portae Jovis, which served as castra pretoria when the city was the capital of the Roman Empire. It was enlarged by Galeazzo's successors, Gian Galeazzo, Giovanni Maria and Filippo Maria Visconti, until it became a square-plan castle with 200 m-long sides, four towers at the corners and up to 7-metre-thick (23 ft) walls. The castle was the main residence in the city of its Visconti lords, and was destroyed by the short-lived Golden Ambrosian Republic which ousted them in 1447.\n In 1450, Francesco Sforza, once he had shattered the republicans, began reconstruction of the castle to turn it into his princely residence. In 1452 he hired the sculptor and architect Filarete to design and decorate the central tower, which is still known as the Torre del Filarete. After Francesco's death, the construction was continued by his son Galeazzo Maria, under the architect Benedetto Ferrini. The decoration was executed by local painters. In 1476, during the regency of Bona of Savoy, the tower bearing her name was built.
{palazzo_9_desc_short}Castello Sforzesco