Palazzo Pretorio

Built in the fourteenth century under the Scaliger government and called in the depictions Palazzo della Ragione, in the ‘Grande Loggia’ and under its ancient colonnade the rectors, who lived in the premises above, governed and administered justice. At the beginning of the nineteenth century it suffered an important collapse that led to the elevation and to join it to the other adjacent buildings, the public warehouse and the town hall. Until 1950 under the loggia there was a fresco dedicated to the Madonna and Child now preserved in the rooms of the Museum of Riva, also restorations conducted in the eighties brought to light fragments of frescoes of city life placed close to the arches. To the south there was a garden surrounded by walls and bordering the lake that together with the customs palace, demolished in the thirties of the twentieth century, prevented access to the square, if not from the Porta Bruciata.

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