page_title: Town hall of Mirandola
section_title: Southern facade
hierarchical_section_title: Town hall of Mirandola / Architecture / Exteriors / Southern facade
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Piazza Montanara (attuale piazza Mazzini) a Mirandola nel primo dopoguerra
context_page_description: The Town hall of Mirandola is a historic public building located in the city center of Mirandola, in the province of Modena, Italy.
  Seat of the city government until May 2012, the building is dramatically located at the end of Costituente square and is one of the most recognizable icon of the city of Mirandola, along with the castle of the Pico.
context_section_description: The southern facade was built in a simple way by Angelo Scarabelli Pedoca between September 1783 and 1784, when it was decided to demolish the houses that supported the town hall in order to create the "gabella de' grani" (grain market).
  The facade is substantially identical to the original eighteenth century, with seven large round arches plus two lateral, supported by square brick columns.
  On the ground floor, there is a large doorway which leads to a corridor communicating with the entrance on the opposite side and a staircase leading to the mezzanine floor and the horizontal floor located in the middle of the first ramp of the internal staircase.
  On the first floor, there are six rectangular windows and a French window leading to a small terrace with a cast iron railing.
  Initially, the new square was simply called "Piazzetta Nuova" (1786), while in 1865 it was named Piazza Montanara, in memory of the famous battle of Montanara fought on 29 May 1848 during the first war of independence.
  In 1930 or 1931, near the south-eastern corner of the palace, the large newspaper kiosk was built on 23 June 1906 in Belle Époque style and in wrought iron and glass, which was initially located in Modena, first in Piazza Grande (between the apse of the Duomo of Modena and the Ringadora stone) and then in Alessandro Tassoni square.
caption: The southern facade before the arrival of the newspaper kiosk (1930)
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