Attavantich Tenement House

This townhouse is a valuable monument of bourgeois architecture. After the city fire in 1625, it was purchased by the Italian merchant Julius Attavanti. In 1680 it was renovated by its next owner, Jaroslaw alderman Jan Metlant.

The tenement house is a three-story building with a basement, under which there are very long corridors. Initially it was a shed-like building, with arcades
and a wide hallway. The tenement was rebuilt, and now there is a courtyard in place of the shed.

After the occupation of the town hall by the Austrians, the municipal authorities and later the court were located in this tenement. In the twentieth century it housed a folk school and the Frederic Chopin Music Society, founded by the prominent pianist Maria Turzanska.

The Attavantich House is home to an institution that has been operating since 2009 - the Center for Culture and Promotion in Yaroslavl. On the first floor of the building there is a Tourist Information Point, where one can obtain information about the city, the region, and purchase various souvenirs and souvenirs. An Underground Tourist Passage is also available for tourists, presenting expositions on, among other things, Yaroslavl fairs, 17th-century cuisine or the building disaster of the 1960s. and offering many multimedia attractions. The Center also has galleries: the Main Gallery, Debuts Gallery, and in the Hall. The last floor is occupied by the representative Hall of Mirrors with beautiful stucco, which is, as before, a venue for cultural events and concerts.

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