Discover Piazza dei Signori

The square is defined by brick rather than stone, which is what makes it feel different from the marble squares further south in the Veneto. The Palazzo dei Trecento presents a long wall of it, pierced by a row of tall arched windows above an open ground-floor loggia.

The Palazzo del Podestà opposite is a nineteenth-century rebuilding in medieval style, and the Torre Civica beside it is genuinely old. Telling those two apart is harder than it should be, which was the intention.

Continuous arcades run around the remaining sides, carrying the upper floors and giving the square its enclosed, room-like quality.