Construction history: The Palazzo del Monte di Pietà Nuovo is a building of medieval origin that stands between Piazza Duomo and Via Monte di Pietà in Padua. The building housed the 16th century Monte di Pietà. The fourteenth-century loggia supports an extension by Giovanni Maria Falconetto. It differs in that it was the second headquarters of the Monte di Pietà, the first being the Palazzo del Monte di Pietà Vecchio on Stra' Maggiore, now via Dante.
In 1822, the property was purchased by the Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, the banking institution that would merge into the Cassa di Risparmio del Veneto of the Intesa Sanpaolo group in 2007. The expansion that ended in 1861 saw the construction of two new internal wings and the building was given its current proportions.
Major restoration work to the palace took place in 1990, strengthening the structure and highlighting the original aspects of the sixteenth-century reconstruction and seventeenth-century extension.
The building today houses the headquarters of the foundation, which internally coordinates the various activities it provides and organizes important artistic exhibitions in specially equipped spaces. There is also a branch of the Cassa di Risparmio del Veneto in one wing of the building.