The history of this house

Background...

Palazzo Fracastoro was designed in the second half of the 18th Century by Adriano Cristofali (1718-1788), the most prolific designer of the 18th Century  in Verona.

The neoclassical building, with baroque trends, is located between via Pallone and via Ponte Rofiolo, forming a sharp angle that characterizes it. In the inner courtyard there is a beautiful example of a decorated Renaissance water well.

Adriano Cristofali (Verona, 1718-1788) has become an eclectic engineer / architect, famous for his valuable architectural works designed. Cristofali was sent to Rome for patronage by the Marquis Spolverini to study the Roman antiquities. Returning to Verona, he immediately began his professional activity designing altars, churches and palaces. Adriano Cristofali, son of a modest family, worked for a varied commission, from the aristocracy (families like Spolverini, Canossa, Sagramoso, Pompei, Bernini, Giona, Fracastoro, Da Vico), to the merchants and bourgeois who, affirmed in the Verona social context, they needed visibility with the realization of beautiful buildings.

Go and discover the other works of Cristofali in Verona and its province:

Villa Canossa a Grezzano
Porticato del Filarmonico di via Roma con negozi commerciali 
Villa Fattori-Mosconi-Bertani a Novare di Arbizzano. 
Palazzo Salvi-Erbisti - Comune di Verona, via Leoncino 
Palazzo Balladoro - corso Cavour, tra vicolo Pomodoro e vicolo cieco Pomodoro. 
Villa Bettoni a Bogliaco, lago di Garda
Palazzo Mosconi, Banca Cattolica - via Valerio Catullo, angolo corte Farina. 
Palazzo Giusti, Tedeschi, Hotel Accademia, via Scala, angolo via Mazzini. 
Palazzo Fracastoro, Rubinelli - via Ponte Rofiolo, angolo via Pallone. 
Palazzo/villa Grigolati, Simeoni, Brasavola - piazza Cittadella, interrato Torre Pentagona. 
and much more..