Perugia’s Collegio della Mercanzia: Medieval Guildhall Elegance
Perugia’s most prestigious medieval guildhall? Certainly that of the Nobile Collegio della Mercanzia (the Noble Merchants Guild), already active in the early 13th-century at the peak of the independence of Perugia’s comuni (city-states). Il Nobile Collegio della Mercanzia quickly became one of the most esteemed and renowned of Perugia’s guilds and in the most solemn religious processions of Perugia,…