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Inaugurated in 1896 to be used as a market square where farmers from the surrounding countryside could display their goods. This is also why it was initially called Piazza dei Commestibili (Food Square).
It is built entirely with bricks and has the shape of an "L", with the inner perimeter protected by arcades, where today there are several craft shops. The square has two entrances, closed by two wrought iron gates: one on Via Marconi, the other on Via Palombo.
Opposite the latter is a cast iron fountain; to the right, instead, one can see a rectangular space once reserved for the fish market, but which in the first half of the 19th century, enclosed by walls, was used as a promenade for prisoners confined in the overlying structure to its right, not yet used as the Government Palace.
It is built entirely with bricks and has the shape of an "L", with the inner perimeter protected by arcades, where today there are several craft shops. The square has two entrances, closed by two wrought iron gates: one on Via Marconi, the other on Via Palombo.
Opposite the latter is a cast iron fountain; to the right, instead, one can see a rectangular space once reserved for the fish market, but which in the first half of the 19th century, enclosed by walls, was used as a promenade for prisoners confined in the overlying structure to its right, not yet used as the Government Palace.