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Main - - Culture - Architectural monuments - Minsk region Nesvizh town hall
Nesvizh town hall is a monument of architecture of the 16th century with features of Renaissance. It was erected in 1589-1596 years in Market Square of Niesvizh (ordination Centre of Princes Radziwill) on the project of the court architect D.M. Bernardoni together with trade rows. The original form is preserved in the graphics of the late 16th - early 17th centuries. Rectangular two-storey building with a six-storey tower at the main plane face north facade. The architectural image is strict and concise. On the first floor offices were located, on the second floor there was the Council Hall with a cylindrical vault with dismantling. It was rebuilt in 1752 in the late Baroque style, In 1836 a fire destroyed the two upper octagonal floors of the tower. It was restored at the end of the 20th century. Shopping arcade surrounds the town hall on the three sides, forming a U-shaped courtyard. Street facades are solved in the form of semicircular Renaissance arcades surmounted by an attic. The ensemble is a historical and cultural value of the republican significance.
© National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011
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