From Piazza San Leonardo, continuing along Via Martyrs of Liberty, you reach the ancient Loggia dei Cavalieri. It is a singular architecture Romanesque brick square that opens on three sides with arches set above slender columns and capitals in the rock.
The roof, in a pyramid with four sloping, form a large projecting cornice on modiglioni wood jagged. Roof, eaves and hanging brick that runs above the arches are a compact volume that contrast makes it even more airy the only room in the building is at the heart of which stands a huge stone column bearing the load coverage while off center than at the top of the roof.
La Loggia was apparently built on older foundations, under the podestarìa Andrea from Perugia (1276-77) to accept a kind of salon nobles who were meeting daily for the game of chess and other hobbies . The thirteenth century was indeed the city of Treviso a period of great economic prosperity.
Venice, having upgraded its maritime activity in the service of the crusades, then began to gain knowledge and experience, and especially its efficient fleet to develop a lucky to trade with the Orient. From the lagoon city goods radiates to the whole of Europe, and Treviso became the first station and forced to land for these trades. With merchandise transit men, money, ideas and cultures.
The inurbamento feudal lords of the campaign significantly increased property development: the fate were tower houses populated by armigers, but the facades are coated kind of painted decoration. The city then enjoyed an economic prosperity which they shall present nell'eleganza of life and taste for holidays that traevano inspiration from the myths of poetry courteous arrived here by the Provencal troubadours.
La Loggia, partially damaged during the Second World War, was reconstructed using the bricks and beams recovered from the rubble, to return the echo of courtesy, still evoked by a sudden toy shop located inside. Nell'intonaco of the wall above the arches, both outside and inside, there are degraded fragments of frescoes that cover the reading chivalry.
Near the lodge there is the crossroads where the paths converge Independence and Santa Margherita. For the latter up to Piazza Filodrammatici closed in the background by a beautiful sixteenth-century palace with a sober pentafora the first floor. Continuing along Via Santa Margherita is on the right sees the unfinished facade of Palazzo Scotti (dating back to 700 and home of Count Ottavio Scotti), today dell'APT which is accessed from Via Toniolo.