Palazzo Pitteri (1780)
piazza dell'Unità d'Italia 3
Arch. Ulderico Moro

Built in 1780 by Ulderico Moro for the shopkeeper Domenico Plenario, it is a simple-shaped building that highlights a symmetrical compositional scheme and fully expresses solidity and comfort. Not only an impressive work, but also a learned one, which gives the interpretation of the neoclassical of Trieste a composite key of its various articulations and derivations.
The attribution to Ulderico Moro is accepted by the current bibliography, but is not reflected in local studies.
The facade is divided into three parts consisting of a single central order consisting of six pilasters with Ionic capitals and resting on a stylobate. The ashlar is smooth designed by simple horizontal bands. The decoration is sober and localized.
It is a clear example of contamination between style and different tapestries: the central exedra with late Baroque decorations; the late rococo frames of the square windows in the upper part of the stylobate and the shelves supporting the roof and closing the facade.
The skilful frame, which simulating the pillar in the corners, proposes itself seamlessly forming a horizontal frame in the thickness of the capitals; the alternate play of the windows with triangular pediment and arched in the space enclosed by the pilasters and the doubling with advancement of the intermediate pilasters to simulate a double order on different floors.