Catanzaro Palace

Beautiful example of civil construction of the eighteenth century by the partition facade with staves that separate the openings: on the ground floor there is a central arched door with floral decorations and two shops, on the noble floors balconies richly decorated with baroque railings. The palace belongs to the dialect production of the years following the Spanish siege but in a particularly refined version.

According to the Ryolo, however, the current building is no longer the original one because, after the purchase by the Gemini, the palace (declared a national monument in 1906) was demolished and rebuilt under the direction of the Superintendence of Monuments in order to safeguard the design of the facade.

Chillemi F. Milazzo città d’arte. Disegno urbano e patrimonio architettonico, Messina 1999.