Foti Palace, Palace in Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Palazzo Corrado Alvaro, formerly Palazzo Foti, occupies a block between Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Corso Garibaldi, Via Pietro Foti and Via Miraglia. Its main facade faces the piazza, with four corner elements; the ground floor has architraved windows and smooth ashlar, the first floor balconies with curved pediments and smooth plaster, topped by a cornice with balustrade and floral and geometric motifs.
The present palace was designed in 1913 by architect Camillo Autore and engineer Gaetano Spinelli and built in 1920, with changes made during construction. It replaced the Palazzo dell'Intendenza, destroyed in the 1908 earthquake; in the meantime the provincial offices were housed in a barrack in the Manti district. It was named after Pietro Foti, a patriot and mayor of the city at the end of the 19th century, and renamed in 2015 for the writer Corrado Alvaro, born in San Luca.
The building is named after Corrado Alvaro, a writer and poet born in San Luca, since 2015; before that it honoured Pietro Foti, a patriot and mayor of the city at the end of the 19th century. Its halls, including the council room with Alessandro Monteleone's 1954 bas-reliefs, now host exhibitions, conferences and events open to the public.
The palace sits in the city center and is accessible on foot, with various pedestrian paths connecting to nearby historical sites. Visitors can move through multiple levels to explore the stairways and rooms.
The staircase to the first-floor rooms is decorated with a Roman altar, and the building holds a 1954 bas-relief by Alessandro Monteleone in the council hall. Two new rooms, a conference hall and an exhibition hall, were recovered from the old light wells, plus a solarium on the terrace.
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