On your right, look for a long white plastered palace with three levels, a darker block-patterned ground floor, and a central three-part window with a slim iron balcony.
The Spineda family commissioned this palace in the later fifteen hundreds, then kept enlarging and refreshing it through the seventeen hundreds... because noble families rarely met a building they couldn’t improve. The façade is disciplined but elegant: ochre bands divide the floors, stone frames sharpen the windows, and the main level centers on that trifora, a window split into three openings, flanked by two taller windows with little triangular crowns. If you check your screen, you can catch the full balance of the front all at once.
Inside, it turns unexpectedly grand. An eighteenth-century ballroom rises through two stories with a gallery, its frescoes linked to Basilio Lasinio, and a sweeping staircase carries decoration by Gaspare Diziani. On the fifteenth of November, eighteen sixty-six, King Vittorio Emanuele the Second stayed here. Since nineteen thirty-five, Ca’ Spineda has housed the Cassamarca Foundation.
This is Treviso in one façade: status, polish, and a very good memory.
When you’re ready, continue toward the next stop.
