Former Hospital of Mercy - Court

"The portico with three arches - at the corner of the Via Timoteo Viti, formerly known on the slopes of the mountain - is what remains of what was one of the largest urban buildings, erected on the 15th century by Francesco Santi, known as Pope and Antonio di Simone, after the oldest building had already been greatly enlarged by the initiative of the popes Eugene IV (1438 and Callisto III (1455) with the meeting also of the hospitals of the Annunciata, Di San Giovanni and Santo Spirito.The most remote origin of the However, the institute should link up with the homonymous confraternity existing at Pian del Mercato from 1333 on the area then occupied by the new Albani palace.
The portico, properly entrance of the Hospital Church, recalls the architecture of the Palazzo Ducale, although the capitals are tampered with. "

From Urbino, i mattoni e le pietre, Franco Mazzini, Argalia Editore, 1982 Urbino.