Giordano Palace

A harmonious example of 17th-century architecture, Palazzo Giordano unfolds with its compact side elevation on two levels.

HISTORY

Leaving the Renaissance portal of the Chiesa del Vaglio, we find ourselves in front of Palazzo Giordano and its garden, a harmonious example of 17th-century architecture.

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The building’s severe volumetry, perfectly preserved in its original formal and architectural image, occupies an entire block and faces, with its smaller side, the small square in front of the Renaissance entrance to the Palatine Church of San Giovanni del Vaglio, through which the Giordano family had the exclusive right of passage.

The garden, currently the municipal villa of Montefusco, offers an extraordinary panorama of the Sannio region extending as far as the Matese peaks of Molise. There is a beautiful view of the Dormiente del Sannio, an evocative silhouette of a distended woman, created by the peaks of the mountains forming the Taburno-Camposauro massif.

ART

The main entrance, on the side widening, is through a simple stone portal that stands off-centre with respect to the longitudinal axis of the building and leads into the entrance hall with its typical cobblestone pavement and limestone recourses.

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The elevation in question presents on the ground floor, next to the entrance, simple openings for lighting to the underground storage rooms, on the upper floor four windows and two balconies alternate with rhythmic symmetry, whose stone corbels and sinuous wrought-iron railings represent the only imaginative element of these austere elevations.

The garden is accessed via a two-flight stone staircase and an open loggia that insists on part of the vault of the entrance hall, on the back wall of which is a stone tondo above the entrance door. On it is carved the coat of arms of the noble Giordano family, representing two rampant lions with a palm tree in the centre.
All around it runs the inscription ONOFRIUS GIORDANUS 1613, indicating the name of the owner and the date of construction of the building. The main floor consists of the dense aggregation of numerous rooms that still offer themselves to the visitor’s eye in their unaltered artistic value. Large halls with frescoed ceilings in neoclassical motifs depicting mythological scenes and fictional architecture, stylised floral designs for the smaller rooms, unnatural crystallised landscapes under the vaults of the small alcoves.

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