Palazzo Bonelli

Un palazzo medievale nel cuore della città

The palace, which bears the name of the Bonelli family who owned it from 1685, had belonged to the noble Della Marra family during the Renaissance. The conservation of the portico, which had been scheduled for demolition by the city plan, is owed to the intervention of Adolfo Avena, general director of the regional office, in the early twentieth century.

Sources say that the palace was built in 1324 commissioned by Guala de Yserio, husband of Adolisia Della Marra.

Their marriage was fruitless so the palace, which stands in the ancient part of the city, passed to the Della Marra family, one of the most influential families in Barletta between the 15th and 16th centuries.

The beautiful portico set on large pointed arch openings and covered by cross vaults is all that remains of the fourteenth-century structure.  It is closed, on the façade, by a string course on the upper part from which a fifteenth-century-style flat ashlar decoration branches out in regular rows.