Palazzo Collicola is located in the eponymous square specially created at the beginning of the 17th century to make room for the sumptuous noble residence.
At the same time other squares with their respective palaces characterize the urban layout of Spoleto such as Piazza Rosari, Ancaiani, Della Genga and Pianciani.
The building was designed by the Roman architect Sebastiano Cipriani and its construction lasted from 1717 to 1730.
The first important representative of the Collicola family was Taddeo, domestic physician of Pope Urban VIII in the first half of the seventeenth century.
The fortunes of the family, originating from Montesanto near Sellano, increased in the following century.
The palace hosted illustrious figures such as Charles of Bourbon (1734), Pope Pius VI (1782) and Charles Emmanuel IV King of Sardinia (1801).
After the family became extinct the building was purchased by the Municipality in 1932; today it houses the Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive – Museo Carandente. The very sober facade is horizontally divided into three rows of windows corresponding to the interior floors. The rear elevation has undergone serious alterations; of the original Italian garden only some trees survive.
The interior has been stripped of the sumptuous furnishings inherited from Christina of Sweden; the main floor is decorated with paintings by Liborio Coccetti (18th century).
Information about Palazzo Collicola
Piazza Collicola,
06049 Spoleto (Perugia)
0743 46434
info@palazzocollicola.it
https://www.palazzocollicola.it
Source: MIBACT
