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Main Palace

n front of the Palazzo Boncompagni Ludovisi extends the Main Building, a residence time of the Marquis regents and then the political center of the small state. Which was also built at the end of the Middle Ages, following the transformation of the old castle was inhabited until the last World War, but the damage caused by the bombings have reduced in poor condition. Its restoration is still in progress, so it can not be visited. A pity! .. Above its beautiful main entrance there is a beautiful sixteenth-century wrought iron balcony of the seventeenth century, where in the past were proclaimed laws, the will and the decisions of the master.
To the left of the balcony, under the third window, there was a hole for anonymous complaints. The renovation of the building, which took place at the beginning of 1500, gave a typically Renaissance. Inside there were large and beautiful frescoed halls. In the basement there were prisons, connected by air ducts to the courtroom, so that you could hear everything that the prisoners said. Finally, some spiral stairs were used as traps, those who ventured was impaled by the blade protruding from the walls.
The building is surmounted by a high medieval tower with a bell, a remnant of the original castle. It was used in the past for sighting and exchange of optical signals with the other towers military Marzano, Jewel, and Elci Lippiano.