Description
Piazzetta Palombo is Campobasso's old market square, between Via Marconi and Via Palombo: an arcaded brick courtyard, intimate and a little hidden, a stone's throw from the Palazzo del Governo.
It opened in 1896 so that farmers from the surrounding countryside could sell their produce, and that's why it was first called Piazza dei Commestibili (Foodstuffs Square).
It is built entirely of brick, in an L shape, with arcades along the inner perimeter. You enter through two entrances closed by wrought-iron gates; in front of the one on Via Palombo there is a cast-iron fountain.
Next to it is a rectangular space that once housed the fish market. In the first half of the 19th century, enclosed by walls, it served instead as the exercise yard for the prisoners held in the building above, which was then a prison and only later became the Palazzo del Governo.
It opened in 1896 so that farmers from the surrounding countryside could sell their produce, and that's why it was first called Piazza dei Commestibili (Foodstuffs Square).
It is built entirely of brick, in an L shape, with arcades along the inner perimeter. You enter through two entrances closed by wrought-iron gates; in front of the one on Via Palombo there is a cast-iron fountain.
Next to it is a rectangular space that once housed the fish market. In the first half of the 19th century, enclosed by walls, it served instead as the exercise yard for the prisoners held in the building above, which was then a prison and only later became the Palazzo del Governo.