Palazzo Vitelli alla Cannoniera Città di Castello

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This name comes from the position near the cannon foundry. It is one of the five palaces that the Vitelli family built in Città di Castello in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The palace was built in five blocks  between 1521 and 1545- The basic design comes from Florentine plants because Vitelli family were in close contact  with the Tuscany city.

The garden wall of the palace has a fine graffiti decoration that was probably  designed by Giorgio Vasara and executed by Cristofano Ghearrdi, known as “Il Doceno”. The place was built for a wedding, and local tradition link it to the marriage of Alessandro Vitelli and Paola de’ Rossi di San Secondo Parmense.

This is recorded inside the palace, too. In 1992 Elio Volpi, antiquarian and restorer bought the palace back to its original beauty and donated it to the town to be used as the Pinacoteca Comunale.