Il Palazzo Cardinali apparteneva in origine alla Camera Apostolica e costituiva un edificio funzionale, chiamato per questo anche “Pozzi da Grano”. Fu costruito fra il 1780 e il 1785 riutilizzando le strutture della cinta muraria dell’inizio del V sec.d.C., oggi denominate “Le Scalette”; la facciata venne invece realizzata dall’architetto Antonio Sarti intorno alla metà dell’800. Allo sbocco della Rampa Braschi (Via Posterla) e a sinistra del Ponte del Salvatore venne costruita da Gaetano Rappini, sempre alla fine del ‘700, una grande darsena semicircolare detta “Squero”, oggi interrata; essa veniva usata come piccolo porto per lo scarico dei prodotti provenienti dalla pianura bonificata.   

Barns or Palazzo Cardinali and “squero”

Palazzo Cardinali was a functional building also called “Pozzi da Grano” and originally it belonged to Camera Apostolica. It was built between 1780 and 1785 using again the structures of the circuit wall (that is “Le Scalette” as it is called today) dating to the beginning of the 5th cent.A.D. The façade was instead carried out by the architect Antonio Sarti about the half of the 19th cent. At the end of Rampa Braschi (Via Posterula) and on the left of Ponte del Salvatore a large semicircular wet dock called “Squero” was built by Gaetano Rappini at the end of the 18th cent.; it was a small port to unload the good coming from the reclaimed plain. Today this construction lies underground.