Palazzo Roverella

To testify to the prestige achieved by his family, in 1474 Cardinal Bartolomeo Roverella decided to build a majestic palace in Piazza Maggiore in Rovigo. The sudden death of the cardinal, three years later, causes the work to be interrupted and condemns the building (whose architect is unknown) to a destiny of abandonment and decay that lasted until the restoration of the façade, at the end of the Second World War. Crossed by three orders of openings, placed on sturdy marble columns, the building is highly harmonious, thanks also to the chromatic play created by the red of the brick and the white of the marble. Starting from 2000, thanks to the support of the Municipality of Rovigo and Fondazione CaRiPaRo, the building was definitively renovated to permanently house the Pinacoteca dell’Accademia dei Concordi and the Bishop’s Seminary of Rovigo. From year to year, many exhibitions follow each other in its splendid rooms.