BISHOP'S PALACE
The bishop’s palace in
Piazzetta Cattedrale (Chatedral Square), today Largo Trinchera,
was built in 1560 and reconstructed in 1750, it is enclosed with
the Seminar Palace from the Scoppa Arch, which takes the name
after the bishop who had it built in 1750, whose stem appears in
the middle of the Arch. The front preserves architectural
elements from 1507 and 1524. The Seminar Palace, built by the
will of bishop Benedetto Milazzo in 1705, was complete by Bishop
Francesco Antonio Scoppa who committed the job to master of
walls Salvatore Trinchera, rearranged in 1960 with the
elimination of the third plain, it preserves some decorative
elements of the original structure. The building is the seat of
the Curia, of the Diocesan Library, of the Capitulate and
Diocesan archive.