Ex Albergo San Marco

Hotel San Marco is located in the heart of Piacenza, at the corner of via San Marco and via Cittadella and it represents an important piece of architectural and cultural history of the city. Its current image is, in fact, the result of several construction phases that, from its first construction, then followed until the beginning of the twentieth century. The asset retains some important valuable elements. In addition to the decorative apparatuses of the two facades composed of the bugnato and the double windows of the ground floor, the intermediate and crowning frames and the edicules that frame the windows, there is the presence of some iron elements in Art Nouveau style. Among these we remember: the shelter on the entrance portal and the railings of the stairs and balconies. The building was born as a hostel owned by the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of San Gervaso; later it was bought by a private who made it the most important city hotel, which often counted among the guests Giuseppe Verdi.