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Photos from the series: Palazzo Pretorio a Rapolano

Policarpo Polimici in his book 'About Rapolano Terme' shows the following information about the Praetorian Palace:
"In the square of Castellare, which was the nucleus of the town, we can admire an ancient palace that after the Government of the Consuls was the seat of Pretoria and finally, as you can see the coat of arms, became the town hall. The documents in our possession we find it mentioned for the first time April 15, 1107, December 25, 1266 it became the seat Podestarile and it remained so for 570 years until 1836 (...). "
From the 'third book of memories of the community of Rapolano' (1728-1777):
" A 12-8.bre 1745
was located in this public building Rapolano the clock for the common benefit, of which I 'furno of already' incaminate instances at the ill. ss.Quattro mo magistrate of the Conservatives at the time of the Magnificent Gio.Batt. Paronchi A, Gaetano Ceccarelli and Pietro Menichini priori and representatives of this community '(...). Clerico Giuseppe Ma Calamati oversaw and assists' the factory's bell and the clock said REDUCTION to an almost SIMILAR to this new bell tower of the old, where instead of the bell where this beats the clock was installed the new bell and at the said building the new tower did make the acantina in that building, and the architect of the clock was the lord said Gaetano Wincher commorante in Siena and the cost of pure clock fi shields thirty and all the glory of God under the bell is written
cupiditas longevity recessit
Bonus opus incessit
Voice decus accessit
1745
under the ball or show clock was written:
Jus dat cuique suum Themis hic,
Sibi quisque negabit?
Tempris, ah! Monitus temperet iste sibi "
Al Palazzo was accessed until not long ago by a staircase that is visible in the prints shown below. On the ground floor was a stable and a prison. On the side of the watch is a coat of arms with the date 1615 and the inscription of the Plebiscite of 1860. This side of the building is renovated in 1773 as reported by the Book of Memoirs of the Monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore.