The Metternich Hotel, then called Hotel de la Ville, today base of Fincantieri, was for many years the most important of the city. Projected by Giovanni Degasperi, presents nevertheless some compositional restlessness in the picture and in the construction of the architectonical order.
The facade is divided in five parts, one central and two laterals, composed respectively by four and two pilasters in giant order with Corinthian capitals and two intermediate without columns with windows with lintels supported on brackets downstairs and simples upstairs.

The ashlar facade ground-floor presents strong eclectic tensions. A gravestone on the left of the facade reminds that in 1850 Giuseppe Verdi composed the Stiffelio symphony went on stage, for the premiere, at the Theatre Comunale the 16th of November of the same year.