Con “Palazzo Podesta Orfini” si indicano due costruzioni adiacenti ma distinte: Palace Orfini, elegant sixteenth-century building with a beautiful doorway and windows epigrafate, and the `old Palazzo del Podesta, characterized by a large pointed arch, which stands on the table almost as a relief and continues to the inside of the building in time covering a wide, probably, the assembly hall popular; which, in 1265, was established the first order of the City of Foligno.

Featuring an elegant porch, it was probably built in the early 1200 and certainly renovated by Trinci. The lodge was in direct communication with the Palazzo Trinci, through a bridge was destroyed probably around the mid-eighteenth century, as well as it is no longer visible, as incorporated in the building on the corner, the open porch on the square, admirable from a print published in 1845 Attilio Zuccagni Orlandini.

At the height of the loggia the facade consists of the representation of Cardinal Virtues (Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance), that govern the exercise of political power, work attributed to John of Corraduccio said Mazzaforte.

The shelves placed under the gallery hosted heads carved in stone, Roman, representatives from the seven Age of Man, now preserved in the Museum of the City.

The interior decoration of the lodge is in monochrome and probably made by two artists from different style. On the long wall that overlooks the Piazza, in correspondence with the images of the Virtue outside, gift represented thrones of wood placed on the walls of a city the three Theological Virtues (the Faith by a man clutching his chest in her lap holding a cross and a chalice, the Hope by a woman in an attitude of prayer and Charity by a woman breastfeeding two children); closure of the sequence, A fourth figure, the Concord, played by a stout woman who makes two people hugging.

On the other wall, a series of scenes that probably constitutes a narrative painted, that some have speculated could allude to the mythical foundation of Foligno and the birth family Trinci, constantly striving to ennoble his origins: Troy would represent the city in flames, from which it escaped Tros, mythical founder and founder of the Trinci of Foligno, while the female figure crowned with laurel driving two horses would Flamminea, symbol of the new city flourished under the Trinci, symbolized, in fact, heraldry by the sign consists of two heads of horses joined by bridle.

Orfini Palazzo Podesta also contains another ,important, treasure: it is here that came to light the first printed edition of the “Divine Comedy” in 1472.

The city administration has moved here, in 2009, although in a transitional, its main offices.

Accessibility

There are no reliable data on the accessibility of the facility received, however, the case of a building for public use, accessibility parameters should all be respected.

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