Palazzo del Collegio Puteano
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The Palazzo del Collegio Puteano (Palace of the Putean College), is a building in Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa, Italy. It is found in the west part.
The palace, near to the church of St. Rocco, was built in the present form between 1549 and 1598, by joining a group of previous houses.
In 1605 was given in perpetual rent to the Knights of St. Stephen, to host some students from Piedmont. That was by order of archbishop Carlo Antonio Dal Pozzo, from whom the name puteano comes.
The sign in the façade says:
The façade was decorated with allegoric frescoes between 1608 and 1609 by Giovanni Stefano Marucelli. After the suppression of the Order of the Knights, the college was open until 1925, but it opened again in 1930 when the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa used the building as Home of the Student of the University, that has the main building in the near Palazzo della Carovana.
