Palazzo Cittanova, Medieval palazzo in Cremona, Italy.

Palazzo Cittanova is a 1265 building in Cremona with a ground-floor portico of Gothic arches on pillars, covered by a wooden coffered ceiling. The brick upper floor is crowned with arrow-shaped merlons and has four triple-arched windows lighting a single large hall.

Construction began in 1265 under Uberto Pallavicino, who held power as an imperial vicar representing Frederick II in Cremona. The building emerged during a period when local rulers built monumental structures to assert their authority in the expanding city.

The palazzo served as a gathering place for wealthy merchants in medieval Cremona who were reshaping the city's social structure. Together with nearby Palazzo Trecchi and Sant'Agata church, it formed a district where the rising merchant class displayed their influence and prosperity.

The building currently hosts conferences and temporary exhibitions that visitors can explore throughout their visit. You can walk through the Gothic portico and wander the medieval halls to understand how the interior spaces connect and flow.

The wooden coffered ceiling covers the ground-floor portico, not the upper floor: it shelters the Gothic arcades on pillars that open onto the piazza. Above it, a single large hall is lit by four trifore windows and topped by arrow-shaped merlons.