Ducal Palace
The Ducal Palace is the Renaissance palace on Piazza del Popolo in Pesaro, begun for Alessandro Sforza in the mid-15th century over houses of the Malatesta and enlarged by the Della Rovere dukes in the 16th. It has housed the prefecture since Italian unification; guided tours show the Salone Metaurense with its painted coffered ceiling of about 1616.
