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The City Hall is temporarily located in PALAZZO LATAGLIATA. The pecularity of this building is that it breaks the profile of the waterfront running around the historical centre. On this side of it used to live nobles and clergy people.

The building that nowadays is called Latagliata Palace, in fact, was built for the Buffoluto family around the first half of the eighteenth-century and it absorbed a group of modest houses. The new building also took - with impunity - some public land. To be short: the Boffoluto family was really powerful and nobody was ever allowed to build anything in front of their Palace in "Largo Boffoluto" (lately called "Largo Latagliata").

This is the only construction which break offs the line of buildings in the so-called "Street of the town walls", preserving a beautiful view on the Big Sea (Mar Grande). Another characteristic of Latagliata Palace is that it does not have an internal court yard, to the contrary most of the XIX century building did have them. At the extinction of the Boffoluto family (almost two centuries ago) the Palace was bought by the Latagliata family and, lately, it became a City Hall property. Among the several buildings of historical value located on this side of the ancient Taranto, we want to point out your attention at Pantaleo Palace and D'Ayala Valva Palace.