Palaces

The Podestà palace, or Pretorio palace, is a two-storey building bordering two sides with Piazza Vittorio Veneto. Its construction began in 1304, at the same time as the opening of the square wanted by political institutions that now needed larger and more decorous public spaces. At the end of the seventeenth century the area was further enlarged by the demolition of the ancient palace of the Chancellery that occupied part of the western side of the square. 
The Praetorian Palace has undergone repeated and deeper structural changes and destination. In addition to the residence of the podestà, it was the seat of the Royal Vicariate and, in the eighteenth century, housed the Theatre of the local Academy of the Fertile. He then underwent the transformation into a mandamental prison, in the court of Pretura and, finally, before the last war, of the Carabinieri.

The palace owes its name to the "vault", as this place was called in the Middle Ages, both for the wide curve that the road makes at this point and for the presence of a building used as a warehouse, called "walled vault". Between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries there were here, in the center of the castle, the homes of the richest and most powerful families, largely related to each other or linked by common interests. 
It is probable that the palace was built in the sixteenth century by union of the ancient pre-existing houses. On the brick facade are in fact still evident evidence of the amalgamation of two different buildings: one, on the left, larger, of which you can see traces of windows with acute arches that overlook the current ones and a second, on the right, narrower, where the ancient windows are marked by round arches. 
The Palazzo, owned by the Municipality, is located in Via G. di San Giorgio 2 and is now home to the Contrada Sant'Andrea and the Montanelli Bassi Foundation, who promoted and carried out the restoration.

They are distinguished by the monumental architectural features even some buildings now owned and used civic or private. The structural and decorative aspect of these palaces puts them in relation to Tuscan models of Renaissance, Classicist and Baroque architecture . These are patrician palaces erected in the period from the '500 to the '700, but that certainly arose on building settlements of medieval times.

Palazzo Nelli
Among the most stylistically relevant buildings stands out the Palazzo Nelli in Via Machiavelli, a minor example, albeit refined, of Tuscan Baroque architecture. Articulated on three floors with seven windows each, it has its fulcrum in the portal surmounted by a balcony. The large side scrolls, the fine ornamentation with shelves, shells and small vegetable decorations are typical of the late eighteenth-century Florentine repertoire and give the facade, unfortunately degraded and without plaster, a particularly ornate character.

A similar example of architecture is the Palazzo Montanelli Ducci in Via Lamarmora, now the seat of the Municipality of Fucecchio. The portal and the above door-window, with their strong vertical development, interrupt the series of large stone windows arranged on three floors with curved and broken gables, decorated with shelves, shells and plant elements. Of particular effectiveness the decorations with masks of Mannerist ancestry. On the whole, the plastered facade shows a sensitive lighting animation.

Designed just before the mid-eighteenth century by engineer Angelo Mascagni and located in the street of the same name, the building has a facade with three orders of windows and a central door surmounted by a balcony and French window. The more linear profile of the openings and the more contained decoration attest to its placement in the period of early classicism.