Palazzo del Littorio, Former Fascist Party headquarters in Montevarchi, Italy
Palazzo del Littorio, now Palazzo delle Imposte, is a long exposed-brick building with travertine trim that closes the east side of Piazza Garibaldi. A tall littoria tower links its semicircular north head to the main west front, where the entrances open. The south end has a ground-floor pillar loggia topped by a terrace with five French windows.
The building was constructed between 1937 and 1939 on the site of a former cattle market. It represented a major public works initiative carried out during a period of economic expansion in the city.
The semicircular north end of the palace enclosed the large first-floor meeting hall, painted with fascist-era scenes by Arrigo Dreoni, a pupil of Ottone Rosai. The hall served the Casa del Fascio before the building passed to the tax office in 1950.
The building now houses several government offices, with the Register Office located on the ground floor and the Tax Office on the first floor. It sits directly on Piazza Garibaldi, making it easy to locate and access.
The tower's north side is banded with travertine at every level, and five stacked rectangular windows lead up to narrow openings in the top cell, where brick gives way to white travertine on the north corner. The semicircular head closes the large first-floor meeting hall.
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