Historic buildings and fortresses

 

Torre Barbarasa

Barbarasa tower

About three hundred towers were built in the city but by around 1600 very few were still standing. The best preserved, b...

Palazzo della Camera di Commercio

Building of the Chamber of Commerce

It was built in the mid-1930s in a city that wanted to magnify its new status as a Province through the construction of ...

Torre Dionisia (Case dei Castelli)

Dionisio Tower

The medieval tower, remodelled in the 16th century, stands mighty and majestic on Via De Filis.

Ex Palazzo delle Poste

Former Post Office Building

The area of the former Post Office building on the main square of Terni, Piazza della Repubblica, was once the location ...

Palazzo Bazzani

Government Building (Palazzo Bazzani)

Cesare Bazzani designed the Government Building (1930) overlooking Viale della Stazione.

Biblioteca Comunale (ex Palazzo Comunale)

Municipal Library (former Town Hall)

For centuries it was the building of power. Today it hosts Terni’s Municipal Library, a venue for cultural events as wel...

Palazzina Alterocca

Palazzina Alterocca

Virgilio Alterocca, a name known world-wide for his postcards, was a courageous as well as enlightened entrepreneur, com...

Palazzo Alberici

Palazzo Alberici

Palazzo Alberici, located on Via XI Febbraio, is one of the most renowned Renaissance palazzos in Terni.

Palazzo Bianchini Riccardi

Palazzo Bianchini Riccardi

Palazzo Rosci (or Rossi), now named Bianchini Riccardi, dates back to the 16th century. Attributed by some to Bramante, ...

Palazzo Briganti

Palazzo Briganti

Palazzo Briganti deserves a position of excellence in Terni, "marked" by the designs of Mario Ridolfi and Wolfgang Frank...

Palazzo Carrara

Palazzo Carrara

The imposing volume of Palazzo Carrara, which for a long time was the residence of the Carrara family (one of the most i...

Palazzo Chitarrini

Palazzo Chitarrini

When drawing up the reconstruction plan for the bombed city, Mario Ridolfi included Via Primo Maggio parallel to Corso T...

Palazzo Fabrizi

Palazzo Fabrizi

The palazzo, located on the corner of Via Cavour and Fratini, is an 18th-century reconstruction of one or more earlier b...

Palazzo Gazzoli

Palazzo Gazzoli

The majestic palazzo which bears the name of the noble Gazzoli family who commissioned it at the end of the 18th century...

Palazzo Manassei

Palazzo Manassei

This aristocratic building, profoundly renovated in the 17th century, the century to which the frescoes on the main floo...

Palazzo Mastrozzi Magroni

Palazzo Mastrozzi Magroni

The palazzo, located on the corner of Via Cavour and Via Tre Colonne, was probably built in the 16th century based on th...

Palazzo Mazzancolli

Palazzo Mazzancolli

Palazzo Mazzancolli is one of the most important examples of medieval architecture in Terni.

Palazzo Montani

Palazzo Montani

Located between Via Garibaldi, Europa Square and Corso del Popolo, the Palazzo, a typical 17th-century patrician residen...

Palazzo Montani Leoni

Palazzo Montani Leoni

Palazzo Montani Leoni was built in 1584 and commissioned by Aurelio Fazioli, as recorded on the ancient architrave of th...

Palazzo Pierfelici

Palazzo Pierfelici

The Palazzo dates back to the 16th century but underwent renovation in the 18th century and the top floor with the corni...

Palazzo Possenti

Palazzo Possenti

The palazzo, with late 16th-century features, belonged to Pier Gaetano Possenti, a sculptor and architect who drew up th...

Palazzo Primavera

Palazzo Primavera (Spring Palazzo)

Today it goes by the name of Palazzo Primavera (Spring Palazzo) and it appears to be a recent construction.

Palazzo Sciamanna

Palazzo Sciamanna

The construction of the palazzo dates back to 1603, as indicated by an inscription on an epigraph above the entrance doo...

Palazzo Spada

Palazzo Spada

Headquarters of Terni's City Hall, commissioned by Michelangelo Spada, it originally consisted of two parts that were jo...

Porta Sant'Angelo

Porta Sant'Angelo

Porta Sant' Angelo, the western gate of the medieval city, is so called because a church situated a short distance away ...

Porta Spoletina

Porta Spoletina

Through Porta Spoletina, the Flaminia consular road leading out of Terni, in a southwest northeast direction, headed tow...

Anfiteatro romano

Roman Amphitheatre

One of the most significant pieces of evidence of the rich historical stratification of Terni and the most imposing pres...

Mura romane

Roman Walls

Until the second half of the 19th century, the city of Terni was entirely enclosed by the Nera River, the Serra stream, ...