Built between 1473 and 1481 by Lombard architects Gasperino di Antonio and Leone di Matteo to receive the magistrate’s courts formerly housed in Piazza Grande, it stands in the square once known as “Sopramuro” (above the walls), today Matteotti. It used to look out onto a view that included Assisi and the underlying plain of the “Battlefield”. It was extended onto the terraces prepared for this purpose in 1247 (murus civitatis), that incorporated the Etruscan walls, and on the 14th century terraces supported by strong vaults, used in the next century as warehouses and nowadays as courts of law. The building underwent extensive structural alterations after the second floor collapsed due to the 1741 earthquake. The finely decorated main entrance is surmounted by a lunette that contains a statue depicting Justice and flanked by two griffins clutching in their talons a she-wolf, symbol of evil. On the first floor are four ornate double lancet windows and the loggia from where the town crier used to read out the edicts and decrees.