Palazzo Bernardini

Palace Lucca, Italy

The Palazzo Bernardini is a Renaissance palace located in Piazza Bernardini, diagonally from the church of San Benedetto in Gotta, in the center of Lucca. Built starting from 1512 for the Marquis Bernardini by the sixteenth-century architect Nicolao Civitali. The ground floor has an ashlar stone facade interrupted by Doric stone pillars. The floor The noble windows have wooden shutters.

Among the curiosity of the building is the missing stone on the facade of the ground floor above the third window from the left. The legend has revolved around the missing stone which is the stone of the devil. Legends claim that this place once held a wall with a painted icon of the Virgin Mary, and that rock kept falling at this point. This was interpreted as a divine sign and the blockade was omitted