The fire that destroyed the city of Feltre in 1510 spared very few buildings, including a part of Casa Ramponi. The future Palazzo Guarnieri.
Strongly desired by Giovanni Guarnieri (1807 - 1877) to arrange and expand his battered family palace and make his social position clear to all, it bears the signature of the then young but already established architect, Giuseppe Segusini.
The main body, dating back to the 1400s, was thus incorporated into a new building which respected its original neo-Gothic style, enriching it with frames, motifs, windows and a magnificent five-light window on the noble floor.
The project developed by Segusini was inspired by the architectural layout of the existing building, at the time decadent and already partially demolished but where certain valuable elements were still visible, such as the Gothic windows.
Thus was born, in the mid-nineteenth century, Palazzo Guarnieri. A true monument illustrating the style that was most popular in the village of Feltre in the fifteenth century.
Since then, the ancient and elegant residence has experienced curious vicissitudes that have seen it host, during the First World War, Charles I the last emperor of the Habsburgs then proclaimed Blessed by Wojtyla in 2004, the playwright Gino Rocca, born right in the Palazzo , in the rooms on the ground floor and Beniamino, the well-known protagonist of Massimo Carlotto's novels.
In 1998, after years of little use, the owner family opened it to the public dedicating it entirely to culture.
Today Palazzo Guarnieri houses a restaurant and jazz club on the ground floor and concert halls, a music school and a recording studio on the second floor.
