Palazzo del Bargello, Gothic palace in Gubbio, Italy

Palazzo del Bargello is a three-story stone structure displaying Gothic features including elegant cornices and a distinctive rounded arch window positioned on Via dei Consoli. The building shows medieval construction techniques typical of 14th-century Umbrian civic architecture.

Built in 1302, the structure originally served as the headquarters for Gubbio's police captain and functioned as a key administrative center. Over the centuries it underwent various uses within the city's governance while maintaining its Gothic form.

The palace houses the Società Balestrieri di Gubbio and the Museo della Balestra, dedicated to the crossbow. The society keeps the city's crossbow tradition alive, and a yearly festival celebrates it. The building itself is a typical Eugubine house with two entrances: the main one led to workshops and cellars, the smaller one to the apartments.

The structure stands at Via dei Consoli 35 in central Gubbio, easily accessible on foot from the main squares of the city. Visitors can view the exterior Gothic details or enter to see the crossbow museum and explore the medieval interior.

Beside the main portal is the so-called door of the dead, its threshold slightly above street level. Tradition holds it was kept walled and opened only to let a coffin pass; another version calls it the everyday entrance, reached by a wooden step removed at night for security.