The Palazzo Speciale Raffadeli is a Gothic-style aristocratic palace located on Via Giuseppe Mario Puglia #2, a block north of the church of Santa Chiara all'Albergaria in the ancient quarter of Albergaria, in central Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy.
The stone palace was commissioned in 1468 by Pietro Speciale, praetor of Palermo. At the time it was adjacent to the medieval town walls and included large gardens. The facade maintains gothic windows, with those facing the piazzetta Pietro Speciali consisting of mullioned ogival windows. Above the large portal are the coat of arms of the order of San Giacomo della Spada. In the 17th-century, when Eleonora Speciale married the Prince of Raffadali, the palace added this surname to the title. The portal leads to a large central atrium with a 17th-century entrance staircase. The interior of the palace has been extensively rebuilt over the centuries. From the piazzetta one can seem where windows and portals were walled up. It is still owned by the descendants of this family. [1]
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. It originated in the Île-de-France and Picardy regions of northern France. The style at the time was sometimes known as opus Francigenum ; the term Gothic was first applied contemptuously during the later Renaissance, by those ambitious to revive the architecture of classical antiquity.
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