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Built at the end of the 15th century by the first "Podestat" or chief magistrate of Bastia,this house served as town hall in the 17th and 18th century.

Built in late 15th century by Antonio Tagliacarne, the first podestà of Bastia, this house was used as the town hall during the Genoese period, in the 17th and 18th centuries. The first floor was the seat of the Magistrato Superiore della Magnifica Comunità della Bastia. This council, made up of the Podestà and four Anziani was elected every year among the town notables. In late 15th century, there was a party wall between two houses, which were made to communicate only later on, presumably in the 17th century. Originally, those two houses had only two floors for residence above the ground floor for shops. Then the house was raised with one or two floors, probably during the 18th century, as was the case for most of the house of that district. The main staircase (the entrance of which is at n° 2, rue de la Paroisse) has a particularly elaborate architecture: a marble column decorates the string wall, and capitals in black slate (the same as those of the Governor’s Palace) ornate the springs of the vaults. In the entrance hall, a small bas relief in white marble has been fastened; it represents Saint Anthony of Padua – the builder’s patron saint. In the first floor the door that opened into the main apartment was formerly ornamented with a carved crown, a copy of which has been fastened outside, on the façade in front of the Donjon square.

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