All the chambers in our museum are structured around the Upper Gallery. It’s a passageway that leads to the Chapel.

 

In the 15th century there a footbridge that crossed over the courtyard in order to connect the chapel (east wing) to the front part of the Palace (west wing).

 

This bridge – which was destroyed in the 1st half of the 19th century – leads to the belief, by comparison to other Palaces of the same period, that there was a loggia (a covered exterior gallery) in the front part of the Palace.

 

Here one may see the high inclined roofs, some of the 39 chimneys (one per fireplace), the courtyard and the lower gallery (which are used in several of our events but also during venue hire events, i.e. museum mediation activities, concerts, conferences, exhibitions, among others).