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One of Brescia’s high profile architectural enterprises and seat of its principal civic institutions, the inner-city gateway known as “Porta Veneta” is at the heart of the city’s administrators’ attention for its importance within the restructuring of the entire Broletto area. Porta veneta del Broletto, Brescia, restored with funding from Industrie Polieco – MPB srl
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Porta veneta del Broletto
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Restored with funding from Industrie Polieco – MPB srl
One of Brescia’s high profile architectural enterprises and seat of its principal civic institutions, the inner-city gateway known as “Porta Veneta” is at the heart of the city’s administrators’ attention for its importance within the restructuring of the entire Broletto area.
Before After
Duration of restoration: 102 days |
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The monumental gate, erected in 1609 under the Venetian podestà Giovanni da Lezze, is made up of ashlar-worked semi-columns surmounted by a trabeation, framing a triumphal arch with a keystone carved in high relief.
Despite the gate’s significant architectural value, prior to the conservation project it appeared to visitors of the Broletto and the numerous people passing through it in a very bad condition. Notwithstanding the monument’s considerable size and its equally visible precious ornaments, a black patina covering the various forms and indeed the entire structure made it almost impossible to grasp the finesse of execution and stylistic features of the craftsmanship.
Today, thanks to the financial commitment of Industrie Polieco-M.P.B., the company based in Cazzago San Martino and chaired by Luigi Tonelli, at its third venture in the context of the “Revaluing Brescia” project, and to the patient work of the engineers directed by Prof. Luciano Formica from Milan, it is once again possible to contemplate the gate in all its beauty and splendour. The restoration works took three months and twelve days.
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