Torre del Popolo in Assisi from Corso Giuseppe Mazzini

The guided tour of Assisi.

The walk up Corso Giuseppe Mazzini.

Torre del Popolo

Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo and Civic Tower

Palace of the Captain of the People

The building that forms a corner on the upstream side of the square is the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo. In 1275 the Municipality bought some houses next to the Torre del Popolo to build a new headquarters for the Captain's judiciary. In 1282 the construction was already completed and Captain Guido de' Rossi from Florence had his coat of arms walled up between two shields with the cross symbol of the Municipality. In 1926 the building underwent a radical neo-14th century restoration based on a design by the architect Ruggero Antonelli (Perugia 1888-1974). The rooms on the ground floor are decorated with paintings by Adalberto Migliorati (Rome 1902 – Perugia 1953) with representations of medieval trades.

People's Tower

Close to the Temple of Minerva stands the very high Torre del Popolo (47 m.). The tower was built for the magistracy of the Capitano del Popolo, of which there is news in Assisi in the year 1267. The building was partially completed in 1274, the date once legible above a bell, and housed the Captain's family, as it results for the year 1279. An inscription placed at the base of the tower states that the construction was completed in the year 1305, at the time of Captain Cabrino da Parma. On the occasion of the seventh centenary of the death of St. Francis (1926) the crowning with Ghibelline merlons of the summit was built.

Torre del Popolo – Plaque with the municipal forms and measures

In 1349 the Capitano del Popolo Angelo di Latero da Perugia had a red stone plaque from Subasio walled up at the base of the Tower, with the measurements and thickness of the bricks made in Assisi – bricks, flat tiles, squares and roof tiles – plus three iron rods with the length of the barrel, the step and the palm, followed for wool, silk and linen cloths. The municipal statute of 1469 prescribed the use of these models applied to the base of the tower, as well as regulated times and places in the exercise of the craft professions and in the sale of goods, due to smells and noises.

Torre del Popolo – Portal

In 1501 the rooms on the ground floor of the Torre del Popolo were sold to the Collegio dei Notai to allocate the Audience hall. In 1524 the stonemason Massimo di Puzio sculpted the stone portal, based on a design by the painter Cecco di Bernardino (Assisi doc. 1511-1547). On the key of the arch is a stone shield with the work tools of notaries: book, pen and inkwell. The motto of the Art is carved on the architrave: Unica mundi fides. The coat of arms and the initials visible on the right jamb are those of the notary Francesco Bovi. In 1531 the wood master Paolo di Jacopo da Gubbio executed the door in imitation of the shutters of the Collegio del Cambio in Perugia.

Torre del Popolo – Audience Hall

In the second decade of the sixteenth century, the room on the ground floor of the tower was furnished for the Guild of Notaries with a back court, decorated with candelabra and inlays with ancient letters and figures, according to the model presented on 7 November 1515 by Lorenzo di Paolo, Florentine master woodcutter residing in Assisi. The wooden furniture has been lost. Instead, a battered fresco dating back to the final decades of the 16th century has been preserved, which depicts the Assumption of the Virgin into heaven in the presence of the patron saints Giovanni Evangelista and Rufino, Chiara and Francesco. From here there is access to a courtyard which leads to the back of the Temple of Minerva.

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Taken in: Italy / Umbria / Assisi (show map)

Taken on: May 13, 2023

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