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The upper stories of the palace has a long balustrade on the first floor and somewhat eccentrically decorated pediments on the first floor and window-frames on the third. The base is made of heavy rounded arches with black basalt stone. The entrance portal in the second portal from the right was
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The building also once held the archives and the town jail. The interiors contain damaged 13th-century fragments of a fresco depicting
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decorated with columns upon a plinth. On the south end of the alley emerging from under the palace is a white marble arch flanked by
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town. A palace was erected here for meetings of the people circa 1276, but by the 16th century, plans were made for refurbishment.
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Orvieto describes the entryway to the main floor as populated with plaques memorializing events in Orvieto, including:
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architecture civic palace located in Piazza della
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Cardinal Cesare Guerrieri Gonzaga for sponsoring works in Orvieto
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in 1524 granted 100 gold ducats for its reconstruction. Plans were commissioned from
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Facade of
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