Rectors Palace

The Rector's Palace is a palace inside the town of Dubrovnik that used to function the seat of the Rector of the Republic of Ragusa among the 14th century and 1808. It turned into also the seat of the Minor Council and the kingdom management. Furthermore, it housed an armoury, the powder magazine, the watch house and a prison.

The rector's palace changed into built in the Gothic fashion, however it also has Renaissance and Baroque elements, harmoniously combining those elements. Originally it become a site of a defence constructing inside the early Middle Ages. It became destroyed by way of a fire in 1435 and the metropolis decided to construct a brand new palace. The task changed into presented to the master builder Onofrio della Cava of Naples, who had previously built the aqueduct. It have become a Gothic building with adorns sculpted via Pietro di Martino of Milan. A gunpowder explosion badly broken the constructing in 1463. The renewal was presented to the architect Michelozzo of Florence. But he become rejected in 1464 because his plans were an excessive amount of within the fashion of the Renaissance. Other developers persisted the work.