Description
Palazzo Tezzano is the large historic building on Piazza Stesicoro, in the center of Catania, on the corner of Via Etnea: built as a hospital, for more than seventy years it was the city's courthouse.
The thing to see is the symmetrical façade, divided by pilasters in pale stone that stand out against the basalt-gray plaster. In the center, above the wide main door, there is a monumental balcony, and at the top a clock. Behind it, the palazzo wraps around a courtyard in a U shape.
It was commissioned by the physician and count Niccolò Tezzano, who from 1709 built it at his own expense on his own land and donated it to the city, still on its knees after the 1693 earthquake, as a home for the hospital of San Marco. The hospital only left in 1880, and the courthouse stayed until 1953.
The thing to see is the symmetrical façade, divided by pilasters in pale stone that stand out against the basalt-gray plaster. In the center, above the wide main door, there is a monumental balcony, and at the top a clock. Behind it, the palazzo wraps around a courtyard in a U shape.
It was commissioned by the physician and count Niccolò Tezzano, who from 1709 built it at his own expense on his own land and donated it to the city, still on its knees after the 1693 earthquake, as a home for the hospital of San Marco. The hospital only left in 1880, and the courthouse stayed until 1953.