Piazza Libertà Site Features

The square is a long rectangle, arcaded on both flanks, closed at one end by the church of San Giovanni Battista with its neoclassical front.

The Loggia del Comune on the north side is the architectural event: an open ground-floor loggia under a frescoed upper storey, with a fifteenth-century clock.

Two columns stand in the square, one carrying the winged lion of St Mark -- the standard Venetian statement of sovereignty, found from here to Bergamo.

The scale is the point. This is a market square for a town of forty thousand, not a display space, and the continuous arcades make it usable in any weather.

The Loggia del Comune

Frescoed upper storey over an open loggia, with its old clock face.

The Venetian lion

On its column, marking four centuries of Republic rule.

The linked squares

Walk straight through into Piazzotto Montevecchio and Piazza Garibaldi -- one continuous space in three parts.

Evening

The arcades fill from about six; this is the town's passeggiata.

The square sits at the centre of the old town, a few minutes uphill from the Ponte degli Alpini, with the Museo Civico a short walk east.