Giamagli palace

It is located in Garibaldi Square, inside the castle area and is a late 18th-century mansion that, because of its size and architectural features, stands out from the surrounding buildings and was erected by Giamagli family, one of the oldest and most important families in town. The only example of a bourgeois and manor building in the entire historic center, recently restored, it has an altimetrically complex ground floor; the main floor and the mezzanine one preserve rooms with ceilings, doors and walls decorated in neoclassical style.

The ancient and noble Giamagli family came from Sibenik, Dalmatia. NiccolòTommaseo thus recalls it, along with several other Dalmatian families, such as the Bosdari and the Nappi, who came to live in Ancona in the early 1700s. In 1789 a branch of the family came to settle in Polverigi. Among its members it had distinguished magistrates and prelates. One of them was a certain Monsignor Mario, archpriest of Ancona and distinguished sacred orator, who headed an embassy to Pius IX in 1859. The Consulta Araldica declared that this family was entitled to the title of "Patrician of Ancona." Monsignor Gualtiero Giamagli, fond of literature and an outstanding writer in Italian and Latin was born in Polverigi March 14th, 1839. Polverigi's Media Library is named after him, and its archives preserve, study and promote documents and images related to life and social transformations, literature and oral history, material culture and anthropic landscapes of the territory.

The building can be visited on request in the mornings from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. every first Saturday of Feb. Mar. Apr. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sept. and Oct., every second Saturday of Jan. May. Oct. and Nov. and every third Saturday of Oct.