Palazzo Plebani-Cataldi-Barcaroli and Porta Maggiore (or dell'Angelo)

Palazzo Plebani-Cataldi-Barcaroli is a characteristic seventeenth-century building located in Piazza del Commercio. Until 1978, the complex bordered on a twin building, owned by the Marquises Flajani. The Palace includes the entrance arch to the ancient village and the restorations of the Napoleonic era are still evident in the structure today.

Inside there is a fresco that I believe can be attributed to the Corropolese painter Filippo Flajani. The painting adorns the ceiling of the Art Nouveau sitting room, created in the room above the entrance arch to the town, Porta Maggiore (or dell'Angelo). Just below this room is the nineteenth-century painting of the Archangel Raphael, which can still be admired today by looking up when entering the ancient village.

The entrance to the town was enlarged in the nineteenth century and, until the first half of the century. XX, the hinges of the heavy door were still visible - no longer existing - which was closed every night by the city guards, to prevent access to bandits and criminals passing through. Today Porta Maggiore is embellished, as well as by the painting depicting the Archangel Raphael, by a municipal coat of arms, made with cobblestones on the pavement, and by a majolica composition, on the right wall, where some typical elements of the landscape and tradition are depicted. counterwar. At the center of the depiction is the Madonna delle Grazie, who in the past was considered the "main protector of the town", and at the four corners, clockwise starting from the one at the top right, are depicted: the facade of the church of the Madonna delle Grazie, its bell tower, a panorama of Controguerra (bottom centre), the Torrione and a glimpse of Piazza del Commercio.

The Palazzo was the residence of the Plebani family, a historic counter-war family that was among the most influential in the place between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The building is also called Palazzo "Cataldi-Barcaroli" or "Barcaroli-Rossi" due to the succession of families who resided there, after the disappearance of the last Plebani, between the end of the century. XIX and the end of the century. XX. A plaque on the facade of the building recalls the restorations of 1890, carried out on the occasion of the marriage between Giuseppe Cataldi and Veronica Valeri.