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Market Square
The birth of the Market Square dates back to the early 1900s: the idea of building a Market Square was already mentioned in 1903, as deduced from a report of the Municipal Council in 1908, where the remaining works were described as "The utility of the public market is felt from the dual perspective of hygiene and commerce, facilitating the moderating competition of prices for the latter. This work consequently deserves the approval of the honorable council."
In the same year, the engineer and architect Cesare Spighi presented the project for the public market (contemplating two different architectural solutions), which were to be arranged, as he stated in the report, in the space derived from the demolition of a building and delimited by two steep alleys and Via Umberto I. "Along Via Umberto I, not far from Piazza Grande [Piazza della Repubblica], a building bounded by two steep paths was demolished. In this area, it is intended to adapt a small square for the use of the market."
The neoclassical Spighi project envisioned the construction of a loggia at the highest point of the square, with some enclosed spaces intended for the service of traders. The decoration of the square was supposed to be "partly in stone and partly in worked and executed cement with the care that makes it appear as carved stonework." On 23 June, 1908, the Municipal Council approved the construction of the Market Square according to Cesare Spighi's project, but it was later decided, considering the excessive cost, to abandon Spighi's solution and assign the project to the municipal technician, engineer Enrico Famos-Paolini. In December 1910, the works were assigned to Giuseppe Bucci, and the Square was completed in early 1912: an area with two marble counters delimited by two levels of streets and connected by two simple travertine stairs with a cast iron railing.
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