Palazzo Ducale

Located in the Municipality of Avella (AV), the sixteenth-century building was built at the behest of the Colonna family in 1534 and renovated and expanded by Carlo Spinelli in 1555. The palace currently has a long façade marked by a thin string course, which highlights a lower band with two arched portals and an upper band characterized by a row of 9 large windows, each with a protruding shelf at the top. The Pasquino: is a block of stone, originally positioned on an honorary cippus, most likel read more

Located in the Municipality of Avella (AV), the sixteenth-century building was built at the behest of the Colonna family in 1534 and renovated and expanded by Carlo Spinelli in 1555. The palace currently has a long façade marked by a thin string course, which highlights a lower band with two arched portals and an upper band characterized by a row of 9 large windows, each with a protruding shelf at the top. The Pasquino: is a block of stone, originally positioned on an honorary cippus, most likely on the one relating to Lucio Egnatio Invento. The fame of the statue is due to its use, during the Risorgimento, by a revolutionary, who signed himself "Pasquino", placed his satirical writings against the Bourbon Reign on the statue. The Livia Colonna garden was created around 1734-35 based on a design by Luigi Vanvitelli. Among the centuries-old trees it hosts a gigantic plane tree placed between two fish ponds in the shape of a lobed rectangle. The flowerbeds are obtained from four orthogonal paths and defined by box hedges which together constitute the geometric peculiarity of the garden. read less