This is the most important point of the city as it is the headquarters of political and administrative power and its symbolic meaning. The piazza is naturally of very ancient origins but began to take on the aspect that still characterises it in the 15th century with the construction of the loggia in palazzo Manfredi which began after the old city government was transformed into a lordship and when the Manfredi family moved into the Palazzo del Comune. The building was then restructured and enriched on the upper level with double lancet windows...
The current Duomo dedicated to St. Peter was built between in 1474 and 1520 over a pre-existing cathedral of which little is known and nothing remains, except for some elements in stone re-used in the exterior sides. The building site of the main religious building of Faenza was long, complex and tormented: it was designed by the Florentine Giuliano da Maiano, faithful architect of the Manfredi and “sent” to Faenza by the Medici during the diplomatic and cultural relations between the two dominions. Giuliano here translated renaissance models o...
The Fountain in Piazza della Liberà is one of the most famous monuments of the city of Faenza, and for its central location, a landmark well known to all.Until just over a century ago it clothed also a very important practical function, as well provided water to the population healthier than that of the wells within the city, often polluted by sewage from barns or sewage dispersal. Faenza was one of the first cities of the Romagna region to adopt an aqueduct which, although limited to a few points of issue, was for long a source of pride for ou...
The original, seventeenth-century clock tower was blown up by retreating Germans in November 1944. The current one is a faithful reconstruction, as it was and where he was, in 1953.The original project was by Fra Domenico Paganelli (the same author of below Monumental Fountain) who built it since 1604, using a rusticated base century. It's a 'square-shaped', 5 overlapping orders and crowned by a dome. Below, in a niche with a balcony surrounded by beautiful wrought iron railing and brass, there is a marble "Madonna con Bambino", by Francesco Sc...
Piazza della Liberta is not physically separate from Piazza del Popolo (so much so that the people of Faenza do not make a distinction between the two and use simply the universally understood name of “piazza”), although it is divided by the direction of the two Corsos (Saffi and Mazzini) that do not really make up a barrier or a continuity. In any case, Piazza Liberta has very different characteristics: it is dominated by the imposing façade (unfinished but probably for this reason extremely suggestive) of the Duomo, rising at the top of a sce...
