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| location = Italy
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The '''Palazzo Panicali''', also known as '''Palazzo Panicali al Peschio''', to distinguish it from the Elvino-Panicali palace in lower Alvito, is a monumental building in the locality of ''Peschio'', a hamlet of Alvito enclosed within the medieval city walls.
== History ==
The building takes its name from the original owners, the Panicali family, which was almost extinct in the [[18th century]], among the most prominent in Alvito, whose ancestors included the humanist Giampaolo Flavio<ref>[[Giovanni Paolo Mattia Castrucci|G.P.M. Castrucci]], [http://books.google.it/books?id=eR0TzZi4oDUC&pg=PA69&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Descrizione del Ducato d'Alvito nel Regno di Napoli in Campagna Felice''], Piscopo, Naples 1863 (IV ed.), p. 69.</ref>.
The palace dates back to the [[17th century]] and was built on a previous structure in the locality of ''Peschio'', a village included within the city walls of Alvito, halfway between the ''Castle'' and lower Alvito, near a rocky spur, from which it took its name (''Pesculum'').
The Panicali family abandoned it during the 18th century, having meanwhile erected another, more imposing palace in the lower part of Alvito, which would later be named [[Palazzo Ferrante]]<ref>See the [http://www.comune.alvito.fr.it/2011/jhome/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=70 history of Palazzo Ferrante] on the institutional website of the Municipality of [[Alvito (Italy)|Alvito]]</ref>, from the Abruzzo lineage in which it would be extinct.
[[File
iccionaiapanicali1.jpg|thumb|left|West dovecote tower. Detail]]
== Architecture ==
[[Fileortale Panicali.jpg|thumb|right|Diamond-point rusticated portal]]
It is one of the most famous buildings in the city, whose main facade, originally built on the ancient road that led halfway up to the [[castle]], still extends completely over the paved road that crosses the village of ''Peschio''. There it is adorned with the only example in the [[Valle di Comino]] of a diamond-point rusticated portal, a valuable artistic element.
Two dovecote towers enrich the architectural complex and make it immediately recognizable in the city's urban system: the west tower is structured in three orders and, in the upper two, it features loopholes decorated with protruding corbels.
== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
*[[Antonia Pasqua Recchia|Recchia A.P.]], ''La Val di Comino'', in «''Storia della città: rivista internazionale di storia urbana e territoriale''», n° 23, 1982, p. 90-91.
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{{Infobox building
| building_name = Palazzo Panicali
| image = Palazzo Panicali.jpg
| caption = Palazzo Panicali in [[Alvito (Italy)|Alvito]]
| location = Italy
| address =
| state =
| construction_period =
| style =
| use =
| height =
| floors =
| builder =
| owner =
| client =
}}
The '''Palazzo Panicali''', also known as '''Palazzo Panicali al Peschio''', to distinguish it from the Elvino-Panicali palace in lower Alvito, is a monumental building in the locality of ''Peschio'', a hamlet of Alvito enclosed within the medieval city walls.
== History ==
The building takes its name from the original owners, the Panicali family, which was almost extinct in the [[18th century]], among the most prominent in Alvito, whose ancestors included the humanist Giampaolo Flavio<ref>[[Giovanni Paolo Mattia Castrucci|G.P.M. Castrucci]], [http://books.google.it/books?id=eR0TzZi4oDUC&pg=PA69&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Descrizione del Ducato d'Alvito nel Regno di Napoli in Campagna Felice''], Piscopo, Naples 1863 (IV ed.), p. 69.</ref>.
The palace dates back to the [[17th century]] and was built on a previous structure in the locality of ''Peschio'', a village included within the city walls of Alvito, halfway between the ''Castle'' and lower Alvito, near a rocky spur, from which it took its name (''Pesculum'').
The Panicali family abandoned it during the 18th century, having meanwhile erected another, more imposing palace in the lower part of Alvito, which would later be named [[Palazzo Ferrante]]<ref>See the [http://www.comune.alvito.fr.it/2011/jhome/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=70 history of Palazzo Ferrante] on the institutional website of the Municipality of [[Alvito (Italy)|Alvito]]</ref>, from the Abruzzo lineage in which it would be extinct.
[[File
iccionaiapanicali1.jpg|thumb|left|West dovecote tower. Detail]]== Architecture ==
[[File
ortale Panicali.jpg|thumb|right|Diamond-point rusticated portal]]It is one of the most famous buildings in the city, whose main facade, originally built on the ancient road that led halfway up to the [[castle]], still extends completely over the paved road that crosses the village of ''Peschio''. There it is adorned with the only example in the [[Valle di Comino]] of a diamond-point rusticated portal, a valuable artistic element.
Two dovecote towers enrich the architectural complex and make it immediately recognizable in the city's urban system: the west tower is structured in three orders and, in the upper two, it features loopholes decorated with protruding corbels.
== References ==
<references/>
== Bibliography ==
*[[Antonia Pasqua Recchia|Recchia A.P.]], ''La Val di Comino'', in «''Storia della città: rivista internazionale di storia urbana e territoriale''», n° 23, 1982, p. 90-91.
[[Category
alaces in Alvito (Italy)]]Okumaya devam et...