Piazza Bologni
The Piazza Bologni (or Piazza Bologna) is a place in the quarter Albergheria the historic city of Palermo . It is located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele between the Norman Palace and the Quattro Canti .
The square was built around 1566. The name Piazza Bologna soon became popular , named after the palace of the Bologna family, which was built by Aloisio Bologna, Baron of Montefranco in 1573. The square has a rectangular shape of about 30 × 80 m. It extends approximately in a north-south direction (more precisely: north-north-west-south-south-east) and meets with its north-western narrow side on Corso Vittorio Emanuele. It is surrounded by three palaces, the Palazzo Alliata di Villafranca, the Palazzo Ventimiglia-Riso and the Palazzo Ugo.
There is a monument to Charles V in the square . The bronze statue is the work of Scipione Li Volsi (1630).
On the southwest side of the square is the Palazzo Alliata di Villafranca , it was built on the site of the former Palazzo Bologna after it was destroyed in an earthquake in Palermo in 1751. Next to it, on the southeast side, is the Palazzo Ugo , which was commissioned by Vincenzo Ugo in the first half of the 18th century. The left wing of the building was destroyed in the last world war. Opposite the Palazzo Ugo on the other side of the Cassaro in the northeast are the Palazzo Belmonte-Riso and the ruins of the Palazzo Geraci. The Palazzo Belmonte-Riso was built in 1784 by the architect Venanzio Marvuglia . The family's coat of arms was designed by the sculptor Ignazio Marabitti . The Palazzo Geraci is also the work of Marvuglia. The sculptor Marabitti created various sculptures here. However, the palace was largely destroyed in the wars.
literature
- Giuseppe Bellafiore: Palermo. Guida della città e dei dintorni. 5th edition. Punto grafica, Palermo 2002.
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Coordinates: 38 ° 6 ′ 53.1 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 36.9 ″ E