Palazzo Di Gregorio is a building located at via Dante in

Alcamo Alcamo (; ) is the fourth-largest town and communes of Italy, commune of the Province of Trapani, Sicily, with a population of 44.925 inhabitants. It is on the borderline with the Metropolitan City of Palermo at a distance of about 50 kilometr ...

, in the

province of Trapani The province of Trapani (; ; officially ''libero consorzio comunale di Trapani'') is a Provinces of Italy, province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, Italy. Following the suppression of the Sicilian provinces, it was replaced in 2015 by ...

; it was built at about the 17th century.comune.alcamo.tp.it, http://www.comune.alcamo.tp.it/in-citta/chiese/244-palazzo-di-gregorio.htm

Description

The imposing

façade A façade or facade (; ) is generally the front part or exterior of a building. It is a loanword from the French language, French (), which means "frontage" or "face". In architecture, the façade of a building is often the most important asp ...

has a

Neoclassical style Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassici ...

; on the ground floor there are three openings: an entrance with an

ogee arch An ogee ( ) is an object, element, or curve—often seen in architecture and building trades—that has a serpentine- or extended S-shape (sigmoid). Ogees consist of a "double curve", the combination of two semicircular curves or arcs that, as ...

, small cornices formed by several elements, and two

rolling shutter Rolling shutter describes the process of image capture in which a still picture (in a still camera) or each frame of a video (in a video camera) is captured not by taking a snapshot of the entire scene at a single instant in time but rather b ...

s leading into two big rooms. The balcony on the first floor is very large, and its landings are supported by stone

brackets A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their n ...

, with decorations; the

banister A handrail is a rail that is designed to be grasped by the hand so as to provide safety or support. In Britain, handrails are referred to as banisters. Handrails are commonly used while ascending or descending stairways and escalators in order t ...

is made with

wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%), or 0.25 for low carbon "mild" steel. Wrought iron is manufactured by heating and melting high carbon cast iron in an ...

.Roberto Calia: I Palazzi dell'aristocrazia e della borghesia alcamese; Alcamo, Carrubba, 1997 On the north side, in Via Arco Itria, there are four recent windows, four balconies on the first floor (two of them smaller and decorated); behind the main façade, in Via Stefano Polizzi, there are three front doors leading to some

warehouses A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial parks on the outskirts of cities, to ...

, and a small entrance leading to the second floor. The whole façade ends with a

cornice In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative Moulding (decorative), moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, ar ...

dominated by eight torch-standers: these decorative elements are similar to those of

Palazzo Pastore Palazzo Pastore is a civil building located in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani. Description It is one of the best-known and most beautiful palaces in Alcamo; in neoclassical style, it was built at the end of the 18th century by the baron Ni ...

, located in Corso 6 Aprile, and the other ones in the main façade of

Mother church Mother church or matrice is a term depicting the Christian Church as a mother in her functions of nourishing and protecting the believer. It may also refer to the primary church of a Christian denomination or diocese, i.e. a cathedral church, or ...

. Since 1984 the building has belonged to the Noto brothers, who have restored it completely.

References

Sources

* * Roberto Calia: I Palazzi dell'aristocrazia e della borghesia alcamese; Alcamo, Carrubba, 1997

External links

* *{{cite web, url=http://www.touristinspiration.com/knowledge/things-to-see-and-do/palazzo-di-gregorio-1723.html, website=touristinspiration.com, title=Palazzo Di Gregorio : Local Knowledge Of Things To See and Do in Alcamo., accessdate=2018-01-07 Buildings and structures in Alcamo Buildings and structures completed in the 17th century 17th-century establishments in Italy