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Piazza Grande: a suspended civic stage

Piazza Grande sits like a deliberately composed stage carved against the flank of Monte Ingino. It is not a natural plateau but a constructed terrace — an engineered civic platform that negotiates steep topography to produce an unexpectedly expansive public room. The square’s drama is both horizontal and vertical: from the hemicycle steps at one end to the soaring façade of the Palazzo dei Consoli at the other, the piazza compresses a sequence of civic functions into a single, theatrical composition. Visitors feel this immediately: one foot on the stone plane, another on the stair, and the town seems to cascade in layers below. That engineered suspension — a space that both occupies and bridges the slope — is the defining characteristic of Gubbio’s urban heart.