Palazzo della Ragione (Palace of the Reason)

The Palazzo della Ragione de Padua, sometimes called the Salone, is a large civil building in Padua, the former headquarters of the government and the city courts. With its 82 meters long and 27 meters wide, the Salon or Palacio della Ragione, a former court seat in the city of Padua, is one of the largest rooms in Europe. Recognized as one of the most famous civil monuments built in Europe at the time of the Commons, the building was built from 1218. The wooden cover, with more than 80 meters. In length, it passes by being the largest in the world as "suspended cover In the early first decade of the 14th century, Giotto and his workshop were entrusted with the task of painting with frescoes the walls of the great room, but were destroyed by a fire that in 1420. The frescoes were restored by the Paduan master Nicolo 'Miretto with the collaboration of Stefano da Ferrara and other painters based on the studies of Pietro d'Abano, a rich scholar of his time. It is divided into 333 panels, develops into three overlapping bands and is one of the very rare medieval astrological cycles that have survived to this day. The close relationship between the paintings and the function of the place that housed them explains the presence of the various figures of animals, sometimes fantastic, that constituted the insignia of the headquarters of the court, to whose function the allegories of Justice, Law, the Municipality in the Signoria and the frescoes that represent the Judgment of Solomon and the scene of the trial are attributed. In the Hall are preserved the stone of the Vituperium, on which the insolvent debtors were forced to hit the buttocks three times, after undressing (the practice is the origin of the expression to remain in canvas pants), and the great wooden horse, restored and donated. back to its original splendor, created by Annibale Capodilista for a carousel and then donated by the family to the city. Since 2006, the construction of the Foucault pendulum, composed of an iron and aluminium sphere of 13 kg suspended from a steel cable of 20 meters long, is present in the living room. .

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