Piazza Cima and Teatro Accademia

Piazza Cima is also known for being the setting for some scenes of Ladies & Gentlemen, the famous 1966 film, directed by Pietro Germi and centered on a satire of the sweet life post-economic boom in the Venetian province.

The west side is occupied by Palazzo da Collo, the south side by the Contrada and by the small square, the east side by the Town Hall. The Town Hall of Conegliano is an eighteenth century building, designed by the architect Ottavio Scotti. It has two similar facades, one on the Contrada and the main one on the square: the latter, arranged on three levels, has the ground floor open by four large round arches, which give access to the portico, where, alongside the large portal, are placed two marble columns with Giuseppe Garibaldi and Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy’s chests; on the main floor, symmetrically arranged, there are four rectangular single-lancet windows with a balustrade; on the second floor is an open attic with four square windows. All levels are marked by thick string courses. Inside, in the town council hall, the walls are decorated with frescoes from the Venetian painter Giovan Battista Canal’s school.

The north side is instead the site of an imposing neoclassical building designed by Andrea Scala in the 19th century between 1859 and 1869, the Accademia Theater, an important venue for a high-level theater season and other important shows and concerts. The large façade dominates Piazza Cima by a staircase, to the sides of which two characteristic stone sphinxes are positioned. The portal is accessed through a portico, in the central part protruding towards the square. Four simple pediments, two on the side wings and two superimposed on the central body, are the decorations of the upper part. Statues, also of neoclassical style, adorn the loggia and some windows.