The Sala della Veronica was created within the oldest section of the building, situated between the Palazzo and the Church. Its façade features the famous Serliana, designed as a Loggia of Blessings, which was famously depicted by Raphael in The Fire in the Borgo, a fresco in one of the rooms of Julius II in the Vatican. The room is a small space illuminated by the large Serliana and adorned with 19th-century decorations featuring ruins, a work by Charles-Louis Clérisseau. On all four walls, the artist sought to recreate the illusionistic and romantic atmosphere of a grand ancient building, now reduced to ruins. Classical elements such as niches, statues, and fluted pilasters stand amidst crumbling walls and fragments of grotesques. Amid the overgrown ruins, small serpents and birds appear, to which the artist ascribes symbolic meanings, interpreted through inscriptions placed at the top of the decayed walls.
