Palazzo Romanazzi Carducci, a museum since 2017, is a stately home whose mid-19th-century structure has remained unchanged since its acquisition by the Romanazzi Carducci family.
The piano nobile – the raised first floor – is divided into two areas: the reception rooms, whose 19th-century interiors feature furnishings of Neapolitan manufacture; and the private rooms with mostly Apulian furnishings in 20th-century style interiors. In addition to the decorations and paintings, the palace retains the original period furnishings and accessories. Some rooms have windows overlooking a hanging garden dominated by a centuries-old Japanese medlar tree.
The history of the building is primarily tied to its last owner, Prince Guglielmo, who married a Neapolitan noblewoman, Giulia Saluzzo di Corigliano, Princess of Santo Mauro, and combined his passions for riding, hunting, collecting and fashion with his responsibilities as the Putignano landowner and director of Naples’ San Carlo theatre and Bari’s Petruzzelli theatre. The family's deep friendship with King Umberto II of Savoy is well known; the last king of Italy stayed at the palace three times, in 1933, 1935, 1942.
Dottoressa Pamela Giotta
Piazza Plebiscito, 16 – 70017 Putignano (BA)
Email: musap@comune.putignano.ba.it
Telefono: + 39 080 236 7269
