The Palace was built in 1552 and is a delightful example of a renaissance country house. At the beginning of the 16th century, Frane Gariboldi moved from Milan to Hvar, becoming an inhabitant, and building a house and shop in a very crowded part of the town and a graveyard in the Franciscan church.

He owned land on Vis and so built a palace there soon after on which above the portal of the outer, high façade wall he placed an inscription where he emphasized that he was a citizen of Hvar and outlined his Milanese origins:

LAVS DEO FRANCISCVS GARIBOLDVS MEDIOLANENSIS

NVNC CIVIS LESINAE PRO SE IPSO AC FILIIS ET

HEREDIBVS SVIV HOC OPVS CONSTRVXIT MDLII

A paved courtyard extends behind the fenced wall that was later partitioned with divisions and shortened. There is also a well spring. The house façade was dismembered with profiled windows and bordered with the stone wreath of the roof, adorned with stone acroterions in the form of a sphere. On the ground floor there is a cellar whilst beautiful stone steps lead from the ground floor to the first floor and to the central door, above which is a Latin inscription:

GLORIA LAVS ET HONOR TIBI SIT

CHRISTE REDMEPTOR

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Above the door a relief coat of arms stands out in which there is a fortress and four stars whilst on both sides there are the initials of Fran’s name F.G.

The interior of the house has a central hall with a bricked in Renaissance hand basin with a moulded frame, which was later modified into terrace doors added in the 18th century. The house was enlarged towards the west wing in the shape of an L and this part develops over six arches supported by square pillars. In this part of the house is a basin of a gothic arch, adorned by relief of leaves and pinions.

There is a spacious park with palms and cypresses at the western wing of the house which was planted and arranged in 19th century by gardener, Marinković.

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