Overview
Among the many historic buildings in Bologna, the Archbishop's Palace, located behind St Peter's Cathedral, is definitely worth a visit. The result of an artistic and architectural stratification of great importance, the Archbishop's Palace was built around 1577 on the request of Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti on a project by Domenico Tibaldi. The entrance vault on Via Altabella, built in 1772, gives access to successive rooms decorated, starting in 1819, by artists of the stature of Filippo Pedrini, Onofrio Zanotti, Gaetano Caponeri, Giovanni Battista Frulli, Pietro Fancelli, Flaminio Minozzi, Rodolfo Fantuzzi.
The palace, which unlike the noble residences of the city does not overlook the public street, bears the inscription "Dilige Decorem Domus Tuae" on the main front, extolling the dignity and order appropriate to the residence of a bishop.
Visible during Fai Days, the Palace displays the various rooms to the public that are usually not accessible and reserved for functions specific to the life of the Diocese, such as the large portico on the ground floor and the rooms of the Secretariat and Archbishop's institutional activities: Throne Room, Coat of Arms Room, Archbishop's Secretariat, former Chapel, Cardinals' Room and many others.
