Palazzo Ramamondi di Lucera

Palazzo Ramamondi is one of the oldest noble palaces in the city: built in the sixteenth century and renovated in the eighteenth century in rococo style.

The façade, once symmetrical, is on two levels; in the center the entrance portal is in Herculaneum plaster. The portal opens to a large courtyard, symmetrical, with cobblestone flooring and at the bottom a staircase that leads to a large porch. Residence of the noble family Ramamondi, which played a leading role in the city life between the sixteenth and seventeenth century was admired and celebrated by writers such as Riccardo Bandelli and Giuseppe Ungaretti, who cites it in his "Prose Daunie". Lost the function of noble residence, it became the first seat of the governor, then it was used in the nineteenth century as an elementary school.

Since 1984 the palace has been on the list of buildings of artistic and historical interest of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.