Casa Romagnano

It is a beautiful example of noble house of medieval age, ascribed to the 15th century and vastly restored by Riccardo Brayda in 1885; it was also the first public building of the medieval Turin on which he worked with a punctual minute of the works that allow us to understand the criteria that drove his stylistic choices.

Casa Romagnano

The building has the main front on via dei Mercanti, while the secondary side overlooks an alley now closed, but originally maybe one of the little alleys of the medieval city.

This side keeps, under the plaster applied in later times, the most interesting masonry biceps in pebbles placed in fishbone and traces of ogival windows later walled up.

The main façade presents, at the second floor, two ogival windows with rich mouldings in terracotta with thistle and oak leaves motifs; at the inferior floor these where substituted in the 16th century by rectangular crossed windows, also them with mouldings in terracotta, but with a simpler draw.

In the 17th century, without any attention to the original décor, new vertical windows were made, in order to guarantee more interior lighting.

The original building, besides the parallelepiped body, had a four-arcades portico on the extension of the alley, as well as the interior yard, that is still nowadays closed by a porticoed body.

During the restorations, Brayda finally found some bricks with the motto of the Romagnano family and the heraldic symbol: a pine branch with the fruit; since then the attribution of the palace to the noble house.