A pink building on a triangular lot, with a rounded prow like the famous flatiron of New York, at the corner of Piazza Cittadella south of the Arena. Its name, its date and its architect are not documented in any published source we could find: this page says what is seen and what is missing.
At a glance
The building stands at number 6 of Piazza Cittadella, the square just inside the walls south of the Arena, where two streets meet at an acute angle. It occupies the whole wedge between them, and its corner is rounded into a prow of stacked windows, which has earned it, in the words of Stefano Vigolo, the nickname of the Flatiron of Verona; he also records the names Palazzo FRO and Condominio Cittadella. Four storeys in pink plaster with white stone frames rise over a plinth of grey stone with three arched doorways.
What this page does not say. We found no published source on this building: the names above are those reported by the photographer, and neither the date nor the designer is documented. The forms suggest the decades around the middle of the twentieth century, an impression from the photograph and not a fact.
Key facts
- Where: Piazza Cittadella 6, Verona, at the corner of two converging streets
- Names in use: Palazzo FRO, Condominio Cittadella, the «Flatiron» of Verona (according to the photographer’s notes)
- Date and architect: not documented in any published source found so far
- GPS: 45.4364, 10.9923 · Open in Google Maps (OpenStreetMap)
What is known, and what is believed
Piazza Cittadella takes its name from the citadel that the Visconti built in this corner of Verona in the fourteenth century, between the Arena and the southern walls; the quarter was rebuilt more than once and today mixes the stone fronts of old Verona with buildings of the twentieth century. The wedge-shaped building is one of these. What is believed about it comes from Stefano Vigolo’s notes: a residential building known to Veronese by the names above, shaped by its lot like the Flatiron Building of New York. Its history remains to be documented.
What you see
A sharp triangle in plan, with the acute corner rounded into a cylinder that carries one window on each floor. The ground floor is a plinth of grey stone with three round-arched openings on the long front, the middle one a gate; above it three floors of regular rectangular windows framed in white, and a top floor of smaller windows under the deep eaves of a dark roof. The plaster is a strong pink. On the left the older stone and brick houses of the square, on the right a taller block of flats of the same century.
Do you know more about this building?
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Nearby
- No other place card of ours in this corner of Verona yet.
Sources
- Stefano Vigolo, photograph of 11 October 2019 and notes to the editorial staff (2026): the names Palazzo FRO, Condominio Cittadella and «Flatiron» of Verona. Not a published source: reported as his in the text
- OpenStreetMap (Nominatim), Piazza Cittadella 6, Verona: the address and the position
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