Palazzo Angeli, Rovigo

Palazzo Angeli is a noble palace in the city of Rovigo located in the vicinity of the medieval castle. Donated in a testamentary bequest by Count Domenico Angeli, it has belonged to the municipality since 1876, which over the years has used it as an educandato, high school, prefecture and police headquarters. After a long period of closure, completed the restoration phase in 2019, it was reopened and houses the local branch of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ferrara.

The building was constructed at the conclusion of a period of great architectural activity in the Veneto town. Veronese architect Francesco Schiavi was the author of the project, which he completed in 1780, at the request of Count Giovanni Battista Angeli, Domenico's father, in the ancient contrada of San Rocco, a short distance from the church of the same name, which was demolished along with its adjacencies in 1938 to make way for the INA Palace. It was based on the neoclassical style with a legacy of Michele Sanmicheli's work. Like other pre-20th-century city buildings that sprang up on the left bank of the Adigetto, with the original course corresponding to the present-day Corso del Popolo, it has its facade on the side opposite the latter. Noteworthy inside are the frescoes painted by the Venetian Giovanni Battista Canal, grandson of Canaletto, which decorate the ground-floor rooms and the building's main hall.

Charles IV of Spain with Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma stayed there on September 17, 1815; Francis I of Austria with his wife Caroline Augusta of Bavaria in March 1819; Aleksandra Fёdorovna Empress of Russia with her daughter Olga on May 7, 1846; Franz Joseph I of Austria in December 1856; Giuseppe Garibaldi on February 25, 1867; and Umberto I of Italy on September 23, 1882.