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Address
Piazza Duomo, 13,
Cividale del Friuli
Visit
May 1 to September 30: Tuesday to Saturday 9am-7pm, Sundays, Mondays and holidays 9am-2pmOctober 1 to April 30: every day 9am-2pm (except January 1)
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It is Giorgio Vasari who testifies to the existence of a project by Palladio for the Palazzo Pretorio at Cividale, that he executed a model and that he was present at the building’s foundation ceremony. The desire of the Civic Council to construct the Palazzo Pretorio dates to 1559, but the laying of the foundation stone had to wait until March 1565, when the financial means became available.
The palace was completed in 1586. It is certainly no easy task to recover Palladio’s hand in the building, even if the peculiar basement of arcuated portico, with its stone bosses, may derive from Palladio’s studies of the Roman antiquities in Dalmatia, specifically the amphitheatre at Pola. What seems probable is that the building’s execution was at least undertaken without Palladio’s control, and without particular respect for his original project.
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