Committed by Giovanni Battista Pitteri, was purchased by Carlo díOttavio Fontana, rich exponent of the economical life in Trieste. That in 1808, he made a hotel. The general settlement, realized with elegant majesty, manifests characteristics very close to the language used by Matteo Pertsch.
The principle faÁade presents the insertion of panels in relief, interrupted by the intersection of the pilasters and the development of an high basement in which is inserted the first floor, with the consequent connotation distinctive of the second floor. The prospectus develops in its width with three decorative groups, individuated by the mirrors curving inwards decorated with bas-reliefs and Ionic smooth giant order pilasters. The bas-reliefs have been carved around 1808 by Antonio Bos.
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