THE PIANO NOBILE

The Piano Nobile features a series of frescoed rooms that can be visited.
Their decoration was carried out between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century by different painters.

Palatine Chapel

Dedicated to the Madonna, the chapel designed by Filippo Caparozzi (painter and architect) and Marzio Ganassini (painter), was built in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Of particular note are the frescoes depicting the stories of the Virgin Mary, the polychrome stuccoes by Filippo Caparozzi and the altarpiece with the Visitation (1622) by the Viterbo Caravaggisti maestro Bartolomeo Cavarozzi.

Hall of the Madonna

This hall is dedicated to the exaltation of the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Quercia, built about two kilometres from Viterbo in the fifteenth century at the behest of the Della Rovere family. It preserves the oldest fresco: the Virgin and Child Jesus with the Saint John the Baptist as an infant and Saint Lorenzo by Giovan Francesco d’Avanzarano (end of the fifteenth century, beginning of the sixteenth century), and the depiction of the 1467 Procession told by Viterbo chronicler Niccolò della Tuccia.

Sala Regia

Heart of the Palazzo, Sala Regia was painted by Baldassarre Croce between 1588 and 1592, based on notary Domenico Bianchi’s decorative programme of depicting characters from real and mythological history following the writings of Annius of Viterbo. Noteworthy are also the cartographic representations and ceiling’s frescoes depicting the thirty-three castles that were under the rule of Viterbo, painted by Ludovico Nucci and Tarquinio Ligustri at the end of the 16th century.

Loggia

Council Room

Known as Hall of Hercules, the Council Room is still used for municipal council’s meetings. Decorated by Teodoro Siciliano in 1599, the frescoes depict mythological and historical characters linked to the origins of Viterbo. The walnut benches date back to the first half of the seventeenth century. The raise pulpit, called “Bigoncia”, is the place where requests to the Council were presented in the past.

Hall of Aurora

With its vault frescoed by Felice Ludovisi, the hall allows access to the Palazzo’s terrace and the Red Hall, which houses the office of the major of Viterbo. Currently, these two rooms cannot be visited.

Hall of Landscapes

Also known as of Flags, it features representations of lake landscapes, battle and hunting scenes, with ruins and castles by painter Giuseppe Torriani (late eighteenth century).

THE PIANO NOBILE

The Piano Nobile features a series of frescoed rooms that can be visited.
Their decoration was carried out between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century by different painters.

Palatine Chapel

Hall of the Madonna

Sala Regia

Loggia

Council Room

Hall of Aurora

Hall of Landscapes

Gallery

Palatine Chapel

Hall of the Madonna

Sala Regia

Loggia

Council Room

Hall of Aurora

Hall of Landscapes

Gallery

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THE PIANO NOBILE

The Piano Nobile features a series of frescoed rooms that can be visited. Their decoration was carried out between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century by different painters.

Palatine Chapel

Hall of the Madonna

Sala Regia

Loggia

Council Room

Hall of Aurora

Hall of Landscapes

Gallery

THROUGHT THE EYES OF A CHILD

Dedicated content to explain the richness of art even to the little ones

Find out more

OUR LOCATION

CONTACTS

HOURS OF OPERATION

The Piano Nobile features a series of frescoed rooms that can be visited.
Their decoration was carried out between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century by different painters.