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 This elegant seventeenth century building, with its sober baroque facade, has as its main features a balcony that spans its entire width and the large symmetrical openings. It blends well with the precious yellow sandstone portal of the adjacent church of Fundrò.
High on its facade the modern clock is shadowed by two bells that, with their chimes, spell out the time of piazza Garibaldi, immersed in its sober seventeenth century atmosphere. The building once housed the Senate, a title bestowed upon the city by King Ferdinand of Borbone (in 1777 Piazza was placed as head of six municipalities), and nowadays it houses a private club, on the ground floor, called the “Cultural Club”, and on the first floor, in a hall whose ceiling has been wisely painted with frescos by the Palermitan Giocchino Martorana, the Municipality’s Council holds its meetings.
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