Amendola Square

Via Duomo, 10, 83100 Avellino AV, Italia
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Fontane, Piazze e Ponti

Description

Of almost triangular shape, there are head five streets. It overlooks on the left the Palazzo della Dogana, already seat of the Cinema Teatro Umberto, today made unfit for use by a fire, built in the Middle Ages for commercial purposes, remodeled in 1657 on the initiative of Francesco Marino Caracciolo, Prince of Avellino, designed by Cosimo Fanzago: it is a building of rough shapes, but not devoid of character, decorated with ancient statues, busts of Nero, Caligula, Commodus and the statue of Prince Marino I Caracciolo. In front of the palace stands the monument to Charles II of Hapsburg, vulgarly called "the king of abbrunzo", also by Fanzago.