In the Middle Ages, in an area adjacent to the Monastery of Santa Giulia, there was a large space cultivated with vegetable gardens. From 1173 it was transformed into a public square, the only one in the city at the time, authorized for sales and called the "New Market": here is the primordial Piazza Tebaldo Brusato!
Following this intended use, many buildings of merchants and artisans grew up near the square. Over the centuries, the functions changed, important residences of aristocratic families overlooked it.
What to see in Piazza Tebaldo Brusato
Piazza Tebaldo Brusato houses some of the most elegant residential buildings in the city.
Among these, Palazzo Cigola, now Fenaroli, stands out, with two facades built in different eras: the part on Via Carlo Cattaneo is from the sixteenth century, with a portal with mighty telamons that support the perforated stone balcony; the other, from the following century, faces the square.
Nearby you can also admire Palazzo Luzzago (via Cattaneo 51), built towards the middle of the seventeenth century, and the eighteenth-century Palazzo Suardi (Via Trieste 39), the work of the architect Antonio Turbino, with the small garden in front enlivened by the statue of Neptune.