It was
built in the fifteenth century
The palace
is known for hosting for a few months in 1466 the Albanian hero Giorgio
Castriota Scanderbeg (1405/68) who united the tribes of Epirus and Albania, and
resisted attempts of the Ottoman Empire to conquer Albania for twenty-five
years
The square
named after Scanderbeg was the first case of a foreign name used in Roman
toponymy
The
building is now home to the
National Museum of Pasta
Private
museum opened at the behest of Vincenzo Agnesi (1893/1977) the owner of the
Agnesi company, pasta producer
The museum
is closed for renovation at the time being
ELEVEN ROOMS
with tools for the production of pasta and documents on the subject
The
museum is strongly opposed by the Albanian community that believes the memory
of his national hero is desecrated
