PALAZZO SANGALLO

The east side of Piazza della Libertà houses Palazzo Parisani, also known as Palazzo Sangallo. This name comes from the architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, who build the palace for Cardinal Ascanio Parisani of Tolentino. The building of the edifice, dating back to 1516, was stopped for reasons still unknown, and was completed in 1932 to a design by the engineer Stefano Gentiloni Silveri. 
Till that time the construction was

limited to the ground floor and the mezzanine, with ashlar-work decoration.
Palazzo Parisani has the typical configuration of a 16th-century noble palazzo, at least as far as the lower part is concerned, even though the layout of the building clearly show the varying destination of the ground-floor sections: those facing onto the courtyard were residential, while those giving onto the piazza were used for  commercial purposes.

Photo: Giorgio Semmoloni