Palazzo Recalcati

Palazzo Recalcati stands on Via Amedei 8 in Milan, within the historic Porta Ticinese district. Its Renaissance core dates from the sixteenth century. From the street, a plastered façade presents an arched entrance beneath a Baroque wrought-iron balcony. Inside, the cortile d’onore surrounds visitors with arcades on all four sides.

Columns carry terracotta rings, while roundels fill the spandrels around this courtyard. A grand staircase rises towards the piano nobile. Its wrought-iron railing leads to former main apartments, where stuccoes and wall decorations preserve traces of elaborate interiors. The palace expanded during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Roman architect Giovanni Ruggeri added a wing facing Via Amedei.

Ownership passed from the Litta family to the Recalcati and Prinetti families during the eighteenth century. The expansive gardens recorded in the early nineteenth century have since disappeared. The terracotta medallions once carried noble coats of arms, removed by partisans of the Cisalpine Republic at the eighteenth century’s end.