ACCURSIO PALACE  - BOLOGNA

It is a vast architectural complex that overlooks Piazza Maggiore, home to the Palazzo Comunale (City Hall), and is composed of two distinct architectural bodies. On the left the oldest part, which belonged to the Accursio family in the 12th-13th centuries (from which it takes its name the entire complex), then moved to the municipal magistracy of the Elders from 1336 and from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century hosted the legates of the Pope.
In the various eras there are various artists and architects who have enriched the complex in various ways: Nicolò dell'Arca with the Madonna with Child in terracotta on the facade, the eight Gothic windows by Fioravante Fioravanti, the triumphal entry with the statue of Pope Gregory XIII, author of the calendar reform, by Galeazzo Alessi. Still inside a cordonata staircase attributable to Donato Bramante, and all the admirable works in the various rooms: the Sala d'Ercole and the Sala del Consiglio Comunale on the first floor, on the second the Chapel and the Sala Farnese.
Among the various works are Luca Signorelli, Donato Creti, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Tintoretto, Ludovico Carracci, Artemisia Gentileschi (Portrait of Gonfaloniere) and Francesco Hayez (Ruth).
From Piazza Nettuno, you can access the Ex Sala Borsa, the second part of the complex, which today houses the municipal multimedia library. Through the glass floors you can admire the archaeological remains at the turn of the 2nd century BC. C. and the sixteenth century (including those of the Roman basilica).