Elegant historic building overlooking Via Montevecchio, the Palazzo Vescovile, still the Bishop's residence today, preserves inside the valuable Tapestry Room with splendid paintings on canvas created at the end of the 18th century.
Built on an area where one or more pagan sacred buildings most likely stood in Roman times, from which the various statuary and sculptural fragments found over the centuries probably come, the building, originally consisting of the cathedral dedicated to Santa Maria Maggiore, the bishop's residence and the baptistery, it still serves as the residence of the Bishop and surrounds the cathedral on the east and north-east sides, overlooking Via Montevecchio with its main façade. Rebuilt almost entirely in the second half of the 17th century, the palace has an exposed wall structure regularly scanned by rectangular windows and the main front is characterized by the carved wooden portal and a carved stone aedicule bearing an effigy of the Madonna and Child .
Inside, among the rooms arranged on the various floors which house works from the 17th and 18th centuries, the Throne Room and the "Tapestry" Room stand out, characterized by terracotta floors and vaulted ceilings. The scenes represented in the room underline the persecutions and abuses of power that the Church has had to suffer throughout its history, ending with a message of joy conveyed by the meeting between Eliezer and Rebecca at the source. The various paintings depict Rebecca at the well, symbol of the Church providing life in the human desert; Salome with the head of the Baptist, personification of arrogance; Saul and David, the madness of men darkened by power and the Flight into Egypt, symbol of the persecutions suffered by the Church.
