Palazzo della Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia, Renaissance Revival palace in Pistoia, Italy

Palazzo della Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia stands on Via San Matteo, built between 1898 and 1905 to Tito Azzolini's design in a Renaissance Revival style. Its corner shows a rusticated grey stone ground floor with arched windows and a carved balcony, topped by a white upper storey with pedimented windows and a deep cornice.

The Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia built its headquarters in Via San Matteo between 1898 and 1905 to the design of architect Tito Azzolini, in a Renaissance Revival style. Between 1930 and 1935 the bank bought and demolished most of the old houses in the block behind it, between Via dell'Acqua and Via Argentina, where the Borsa Merci by Giovanni Michelucci was later built (1949-1950).

The building's name comes from the Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia, which moved here after separating from its Florentine parent bank. The older Borsa Merci, demolished in 1961, was nicknamed "gabbia dei grilli" by locals for its unusual design. Inside, the vestibule keeps the rusticated stone facing of the bank's earlier headquarters, once on Via Argentina.

The palace stands at the corner of Via San Matteo and Via dell'Acqua, facing the small Piazza San Leone; the rusticated grey stone corner and the black multi-globe lamp mark the spot. A second entrance opens from Via San Matteo, slightly raised above street level, while the main entrance passes through the 19th-century palace. The two parts are linked by a glazed gallery with aluminium frames.

The glass gallery linking the two buildings preserves the rusticated cushion-stone facing of the bank's older premises, which once fronted the former Via Argentina. That narrow street was suppressed by the municipality after the Cassa bought Casa Vannucci, the last old house in the block.