Grisogono Palace, Ilije Smiljanića 3, Zadar

The Grisogono Palace is located in Zadar, in Ilije Smiljanića Street. It is of interest to visitors as an example of how Zadar's noble families built their town palaces in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The Gothic-Renaissance palace was built by the Grisogono family on the site of two smaller medieval houses, in the 15th and 16th centuries. It surrounds an inner courtyard with a cistern and a wellhead, closed by four wings with two upper floors. A porch with a gallery is leaned against the northern and western wings, serving as a link between the floors. Several pieces of architectural sculpture with Gothic-Renaissance features have been preserved. The ornate windows could be attributed to the workshop of Andrija Aleši.

The palace is a protected cultural good and is entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-746.

Photo: Brokula22, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Data: Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia (Ministry of Culture and Media), Open Licence; coordinates: DGU (centre of the settlement).