Loggia Balsamo
- Type
- Monuments
- Area
- City centre
- Time
- about 10 min
- When
- any time, evenings included
In Piazza Duomo, look up at the façade of a fourteenth-century palazzo: the Loggia Balsamo is a balcony supported by corbels above two pointed arches. The palazzo is named after the family that bought it in the early nineteenth century; according to a tradition never confirmed by documents, the Angevin mint was here.
The best part is the corbels: nine of them, each with four allegorical figures, thirty-six in all. The number is probably no accident: in medieval symbolism four stood for the earth and nine, a multiple of three, for the order of the world. Look at them one by one.
Nearby
- Archbishop's PalaceThe palazzo that houses the archdiocesan curia of Brindisi.
- Brindisi CathedralThe Cathedral, dedicated to the Visitation and to Saint John the Baptist, is the heart of Piazza Duomo.
- Portico of the Knights TemplarIn Piazza Duomo, two Gothic arches in carparo stone divided by a column of Greek marble: this is the Portico of the Knights Templar.
- Archbishop's SeminaryThe Archbishop's Seminary in Piazza Duomo is the finest example of Baroque in Brindisi.