Palazzo del Consiglio dei Dodici, Renaissance palace in Piazza dei Cavalieri, Pisa, Italy.

Palazzo del Consiglio dei Dodici is a Renaissance palace located at Piazza dei Cavalieri distinguished by its pink facade adorned with white marble details. The windows and entrance portal are framed with columns that create a harmonious classical appearance.

The building was known as the Palazzo dell'Archivio e della Cancelleria in the Middle Ages, then as the Palazzo dei Priori after the Florentine conquest of Pisa in 1409. At the end of the 16th century Pietro Francavilla restructured it to match the surrounding buildings in height and late-Renaissance decoration, with the cornice frieze recording completion in 1603 under Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici. It took the name Consiglio dei Dodici only in 1691, when the priors moved to Palazzo Gambacorti and the Knights of Santo Stefano installed their tribunal here, as the inscription on the main portal recalls.

The Salone dell'Udienza takes its name from the tribunal the Knights of Santo Stefano installed here in 1691, as the inscription on the main portal recalls. Its walls were painted with maritime subjects by Pietro Paolo Lippi and Antonio Giusti between 1681 and 1683, and the carved, gilded ceiling by Ventura Salimbeni (1602) shows the cardinal virtues.

The palace sits prominently at Piazza dei Cavalieri in the city center and is easy to locate and approach. The building is currently used as an institutional headquarters, so check in advance about visiting arrangements and access.

The carved, gilded and painted ceiling of the Salone dell'Udienza was made by Ventura Salimbeni in 1602 with the Cardinal Virtues. Its central panel, the Triumph of Pisa, was replaced in 1692 by Giovanni Camillo Gabrielli's Triumph of Saint Stephen once the building passed to the Order.