2022 - Trieste, Italy - 30
The decorative facade of ll Palazzo del Governo (Prefettura) e il Palazzo Modello in Piazza Unità d'Italia - 13 is a camera draw.  The Government Palace (Palace of the Austrian Lieutenancy) was  designed by the Viennese architect Emil Artmann (student Heinrich von Ferstel),  The structure was built between 1901 and 1905 on the site of the old Government Palace, built in 1764.  Originally the structure consisted of two floors and a third was added in 1825.   That was demolished in 1899. like other buildings built by the sea were settling.  Todays Prefecture from 1901 to 1905 rests on a 160 cm thick concrete platform supported by 3,000 concrete pilings. , to counteract the instability of the subsoil.  Externally, the palace is refined by the covering of Murano glass mosaics in the upper part, where you can see drawings, allegorical heads and medallions with the coat of arms of the House of Savoy made after the First World War (to replace the original mosaics, designed by Giuseppe Straka of Vienna, which had elements of Austrian derivation)
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