Palazzo Pretorio Pontedera

HISTORICAL NEWS Paolo Morelli in Medieval fortification of Pontedera is assumed that the two-story building, alluded to the plaque placed under the arches, can be regarded as the nucleus of Palazzo Pretorio (1384). From the fifteenth century onwards the building was the seat of the Podesta of the Vicariate of the District Court and undergoing various architectural changes and extensions. In the second half of '600 were added to the lodges by Captain Giuseppe Santini and then over the latter the rooms of the preacher were built. In 1708 the bells in the clock tower were moved to the church tower opposite. In 1783 it was approved a draft rehabilitation engineer. Bombicci that economic problems did not foresee the building extensions. Subsequently it was raised to a plan the whole body of the building and bought the adjoining building. The prisons are already at the end of '700 were suppressed only in 1975.