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| Palazzo Gravina from the Fontana Monteoliveto |
On the same piazza as the Fontana Monteoliveto is the wonderfully
executed façade of the Palazzo Gravina. Built for the Orsini family in
the 16
th century it looks like a page from a renaissance book
on architecture. Perfectly proportioned pilasters stand over a
rusticated ashlar ground floor, windows with classical surrounds between
each set of pilasters are topped with round garlanded niches filled
with busts. Slightly forbidding, it would appear to be made out of the
same volcanic rock that Gesu Nuovo just around the corner was made of.
It’s now the architecture school of the university and I must say that I
can’t imagine a better building for it.
