Palazzo Maccarani Odescalchi

The palace dates back to the early seventeenth century and belonged to the Maccarani family; in the second half of the 17th century it was purchased by the Odescalchi Princes, who still own it, and Monsignor Tommaso Odescalchi transformed it into a refuge for a group of abandoned girls who were welcomed by the Hospice of S.Galla.

Thanks to a careful restoration and above all a nineteenth-century renovation (which led to the raising of a third floor, with small windows under the beautiful corbeled cornice and the modification of the internal courtyard) the building is still in good condition. The facade, decorated with two stringcourses and an ashlar corner, has the windows on the ground floor with pagoda architraves (and the small windows in the basement underneath), while the seven windows on the first and second floors only have architraves. From the ashlar portal, placed on a decentralized axis with respect to the facade, you enter the courtyard where ancient fragments and inscriptions are set and there is a nymphaeum fountain.