Antonelli Palace is immediately recognised by its unique architectural form: it was created from the union of several medieval palaces to which a projecting part was added.
This central body has a late baroque style with little circular balconies in the shape of shells and crests on friezes along the top.
On this structure there is a small loggia with three openings that overlook the garden below. The central part of the palace, then, ends with a small structure reminiscent of a sail bell tower.
The palace is named after the Antonelli family who had a certain importance in local history.
Mercurio Antonelli was an important historian of the Patrimony of St. Peter during the period of the Avignon exile when in Montefiascone there was the Rectorate of the Church's property.
In the eighteenth century it was the home of the beautiful Francesca written about by the poets of the period and in the nineteenth century there had been Giovan Battista, notary, Gonfaloniere and provincial councilor subsequently punished for his closeness to the pope during the revolutionary revolts of 1848
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