PALAZZO UBERTI

Palazzo Uberti, listed in the 1517 estate, is one of the most important private buildings built within the walls in that century. The Renaissance layout of the palace can be clearly seen by observing the decorations on the ceiling of the entrance and other pictorial decorations from the 16th century. The name of the patron, Giovan Antonio Uberti, appears on the frieze on the façade. The Foratti family took over possession of the palace between the 18th and 19th centuries and entrusted the restoration project to Antonio Caregaro Negrin. The architect created a romantic garden, with a promenade punctuated by tombstones on which poems were engraved, giving life to an evocative meditative path that unfortunately no longer exists. Bortolo Foratti, Senator of Liberal Italy from 1861 to 1922, lived here at the end of the 19th century, and this was the first seat of the Montagnana Reading Cabinet, which, among its activities, boasts the establishment of a popular circulating library in 1869. The Austrian General Radetzky, who came to Montagnana between June 6 and June 8 1848 to quell the brigandage uprisings, is said to have stayed in this majestic building as well.