Bevilacqua Palace known as “Il Quartierone” (Palazzo Bevilacqua detto “Il Quartierone”)

This building was constructed in the late 15th century at the behest of Bonifacio Bevilacqua, a prominent courtier of the Este family; it was admired by contemporaries and was certainly of considerable splendour, so much so that it was purchased in 1530 by Alfonso I to give it to his natural son Alfonso, Marquis of Montecchio. It passed to the Rossetti family in the 17th century, and in 1763 it was bought by the imperial marshal Luca Pallavicini, who began a grand reconstruction project, which was never completed. Later, the building began to house a barracks, a function it has maintained to this day. Despite this, the palace still shows the outward signs of the 18th-century transformation, while no material traces of the Renaissance palace are preserved.