Amaduri Palace, which belonged to the Ameduri family and currently owned by the Municipality, had already been built in the 15th century, but of smaller dimensions, and was the residence of the noble Condercuri family, founder (1575) of the nearby church of SS. Peter and Paul.
When the family died out in the year 1694, the Amaduri family who resided nearby inherited the entire complex, which provided for the expansion of the building, works that lasted well into the second half of the 18th century. (dating of the portal). Among the descendants of Felice Amaduri, Vincenzo Amaduri, deputy of the first Italian Parliament, knight of the Royal Order of Charles III of Bourbon and known for having hosted the five Martyrs of Gerace in his palace in Gioiosa in 1847 is worthy of mention.
The building is located on three levels: a basement, a terraced floor, a noble floor; the living space is arranged around a courtyard slightly off-center to the south, where a pleasant garden opens on terraces, designed together with the building, with corners for rest and recreation equipped with semi-circular masonry seats covered with terracotta tiles and decorated; it is scenically arranged around a central building with a semi-hypogeic room and originally crowned by marble busts.
The main facade is organized around a granite portal inscribed in a neoclassical frame in the form of a triumphal arch, with pilasters on the upper plinth and capitals supporting an attic decorated simply with squares; on the attic rests a small loggia which forms, together with the portal, the fulcrum of the architectural composition of the facade, marked by other pilasters in tombstone blocks. The portal leads to a barrel-vaulted atrium that leads to the central courtyard; the two large rooms on the ground floor overlook the atrium and are also accessible from the outside, where some vaults and the original flooring are still preserved.
Today these rooms and the adjacent rooms are used as historical archives, the Locride Europe Office and as a library (the municipal library has about 6,500 volumes of which 1500 are of regional Calabrian culture. It is part of the Bovalino Ionic Territorial Library System).
Amaduri Palace
Address: Via Amaduri, 0, 89042
Phone: 0964 51376
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