Historical signals
It's XI the century of the first intervention included in Palazzo Poschi (Torre Taccola or of the Taccola) and at least others three bodies of factory ( houses towers ) that with extension follewed in the centuries XI and XIV had block the forehead road of Borgo Stretto.
It's in this scene that in 1496 a branch of the Poschi is moved to Pisa and where in the years to follow they carried on to terminate the construction of the palace.
Realized on 3 floors above ground connected with the preexinstent tower, it must have in it's first order a quadrangular plant to outline centers characterized from an arcade on the Borgo's way and with equally arcade on the back, intercrossed from the centers axis of the income entrance hall, format also that from 3 arches with two columns centers them. The main fecade in brick at sight is characterized from a double lancet windows. On the north side with angle s. Francesco's way the existing double lancet windows, comprised the two feinds, are instead an attempt of reorder of the same facade happened in the half of the 800 edited by Toscanelli became as the owner.
The Leopoldino lend registrer of the 1783 marks already the final situation that characterizes the architectonic events of the palace with the Poschi family.
The palace with Ludovico Poschi know its greater decadence. In the 1840 in fact, by now gripped from the game debits, it abandons Pisa, withdrawing itself to Lucca near the brothers-in-law and all its property come sold to the auction. As a result of the sale, comes acquired in the 1840 from the nobleman Giovan Battista Toscanelli, which immediately orders to the execution of the restoration jobs, reorganizing the entire structure for being lived respectfully on the three plans (comprised attics) frescoing walls and ceiling.
The palace remains of property of the Toscanelly until 1909 ; when it passes in property to the Catholic Society of assurance that of ago the own center, and in 1937 transfers it to giovanni Allegrini remaining some in property to the family until 2002 when it comes acquired from the Society 92 Plan that a delicate one starts and important restoration planned and directed from architect Albertino Linciano of the Linciano study Welcomes and Associates to you. (www.libea.it)
In the first preliminary inspections to the restoration, he is appeared endured obvious, to the light also of previous tests that had been carry out to you on masonries and ceilings, that the palace it still conserved a remarkable amount of decorations and frescoesthat hypotheses left to then think next to the one minimal violetion of the entire organism ( refutation from historical surveying )
It was however irrefutable that at least the use to offices that had been made from the palace for an entire century, have preserved it from the customary wild restructures. Cleaned up the structure from elements builded in a second moment, from the original constructure, it has been executed a capillary restoration of all superficial cortical the inner and the external ones, then they have been re-establish the hierarchy own of the spaces, and the functionality of the building has been played limiting lessened indispensable the insertion of new elements. The new inner volumes you execute yourself with formal accuracy, give back an image of furnishing element.