Villa Orange:16. The medieval town hall Palazzo della Ragione (1219) has an entrance hall of 80 m long, 27 m wide and 40 m high. The huge roof is not supported by pillars, very unique. The view over the square is beautiful. There are a number of unique things to see including Pietra del Vituperio, a huge horse and 500 frescoes. The "Pietra del Vituperio", stone of misconduct, was a type of stone where people with debts had to sit in their underwear in the presence of at least hundred people. They had to sit on the stone three times and repeat "cedo bonis" (I give up my possessions) and then they had to leave the city. If they decided to come back, they had to sit on the Pietra del Vituperio again three buckets of water were thrown over them. In Palazzo della Ragione is also a huge wooden horse that was donated to the municipality in 1837 by the Capodilista family, who had it built in 1466 for a merry-go-round. Palazzo della Ragione is decorated with around 500 frescoes. The painter Giotto had decorated
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