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San Pellegrino

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One of the most antique quarters of the city, surely that which has best conserved the Medieval aspect of the 1200’s with narrow streets that open up into small squares encircled with old buildings, towers, arched porticos, etc…
An architectural complex entirely realized in the typical local stone called “peperino” a grey volcanic stone, creating a uniformly chromatic environment.

The hub of this area is Piazza San Pellegrino where the Roman époque church of the same name is found where, sadly to say, only a few fragments of frescoes remind us of the beauty lost. The church, in fact, seems unnatural due to the continuous restructuring, the last was followed by bombing from WWII.

Also in the Piazza, Palazzo of the Alessandri, built in the first half of the 13th century and saved by destruction after the exile of the Guelf family Alessandri by Pope Innocanzo IV. The building has three floors and an ample balcony with an expressive low arch.
The parapet of the stairway is decorated with a star motif repeated on the shelving above it. An addition to the building that passes over the street was added later in order to connect the building with another on the other side of the square. This type of construction, called “bridge” housing, can be found in other parts of the quarter of San Pellegrino contributing to the characteristic outline of the landscape. On the opposite side of the Palace of the Alessandri we can find the Scaciaricci tower, a house tower with four floors.

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