Palazzo Carli

Opposite Castelvecchio stands a historic palace, built at the behest of Marquis Giuseppe Della Torre and his wife Elena Carli, around the middle of the 18th century. In 1789 the palace was sold to Elena's brother, Alessandro, a historian and scholar, who later sold it to the Basilea brothers.

In 1839, during the Austrian occupation, the Palace was acquired by the royal state property that used it until 1851 as the seat of the Imperial Royal Senate of Lombardy-Venetia of the Supreme Court of Justice and later used as the seat of the Commander of the Austrian forces in Italy, the first of which was General Josef Radetzky. His wife, Countess Francesca Romana von Strassoldo-Gräfenberg, died at Palazzo Carli in 1854.

In 1858 Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Elisabeth visited Verona and stayed in the palace. Later, on October 16th, 1866, at the end of the third War of Independence, the transfer of Verona to the municipality was signed in Hall of Stuccoes.

The structure of the building has an internal courtyard in which there is a beautiful fountain. The façade, divided into three registers, encloses rusticated arches with Doric pillars and a large central hall with a loggia. Inside you can admire frescoes by Giambettino Cignaroli, Domenico Pecchio and Marco Marcola.