Palazzo Fugger Galasso

Opening times:
• from 1st January 2021 to 1st January 2025, from Monday to Sunday

Historic building visible from the outside. The courtyard of the palace can be visited.

This valuable seventeenth-century palace is also known as the "Devil's Palace" because of an ancient and sinister legend, cited by the German writer and writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe 

There is a legend about this palace, even mentioned by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in 1786. According to some, the building was built in one night by the Devil himself, to whom the banker Georg Fugger had sold his soul in order to marry the noblewoman from Trentino, Elena Madruzzo, with whom he was hopelessly in love. Built in 1602 at the behest of the same descendant of the powerful family of bankers of Augusta, the palace impresses visitors with its solemn classic style designed by the Brescia architect Pietro Maria Bagnadore. Very interesting is the chapel dedicated to the Anaunian Martyrs and erected in 1607, which features some pictorial decorations by Bagnadore himself in addition to the valuable stucco by the Como artist Davide Reti.

Please note: only the courtyard of the building can be visited.

STRENGTH

The solemn and evocative appearance embellished by the artistic value of the building.

Information and contacts

Places: TRENTO

organization

Via Belenzani, 19 - 38122 Trento (TN)

comurp@comune.trento.it

Phone: +390461884453

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