Walking along the streets of the village, you can appreciate the majesty of some palaces of notable historical and architectural value such as Palazzo Scolari-Salice (16th century), Palazzo Fullini-Zaia (second half of the 17th century), Palazzo Manin-Cecconi-Zaro (16th - 17th century) Palazzo Polcenigo (16th century) and Palazzo Pezzutti (17th century).

Palazzo Scolari-Salice was initially the residence of the Fabris and then of the Mainardi.

In the 19th century, it passed to engineer Pietro Quaglia, whose daughter married Francesco Saverio Scolari, a patriot, university professor, and parliamentarian.

It features a portico with coats of arms, arches, and columns from the 13th century. The inner courtyard gives access to the majestic Italian garden, created by Engineer Quaglia on the slope of the hill, which preserves paths, hedges, and rare centuries-old trees.

Palazzo Fullini-Zaia, possibly designed by Domenico Rossi, is an imposing building on Piazza Plebiscito, with rusticated arches, triforas, and original masks.

The palace preserves 19th-century stuccoes and a superb staircase. In 1809, it hosted Napoleon's adopted son, Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy, before the Battle of Camolli.

Palazzo Manin-Zaro is an example of late Venetian style. The palace is adorned with biforas, triforas, and marble and stucco decorations. 

The cinema-theater is a notable building belonging to the Counts of Polcenigo, who probably used it as a warehouse.

From the second half of the 19th century, concerts and amateur theatrical performances were held there. After an impressive restoration, the building now houses the new welcoming cinema-theater on the ground floor and the Museum of Culinary Art on the first floor. Also noteworthy are the church of Coltura, dedicated to San Lorenzo, (early 13th century) and the church of San Giovanni (14th-18th century).

For its panoramic value, Mezzomonte, once called Nuvolone, deserves special mention. Located on the mountain at a height of 477 meters, it has a multi-level urban layout, with stone houses, and a panoramic view towards the plain.

Palazzo Scolari is a noble residence dating back to the 17th century, declared by the Italian State as a property of historical and cultural interest.

The pedestrian entrance from via Gorgazzo is characterized by a small portico supported by two original stone columns dating back to the 15th century.

Maria Mainardi, by marrying engineer Pietro Quaglia (1810–1882), brought Palazzo Scolari as a dowry.

The only survivor of the six children born from the happy marriage of Pietro and Maria Quaglia, Aldina (1855–1926), married the esteemed university professor of administrative law Saverio Scolari (1831-1893).

Their children, Luisa (1877–1959), Maria (1879–1968), and Francesco (1882–1956), who died without heirs, left the property to their nephew Giuseppe Salice and his wife Giovanna Scotti.

The Salice couple were passionate creators in the 1970s of the renovation of the Palazzo as we see it today.

Hence the current name of Palazzo Salice-Scolari, now owned by the daughters Anna and Egle Salice, who have turned it into, besides their residence, an elegant bed & breakfast.

The ITALIAN GARDEN

Palazzo Salice-Scolari has a characteristic and original Italian garden created, at the time, by the owner engineer Pietro Quaglia (1810 – 1882) after the death of his beloved wife Maria Mainardi in 1861.

The garden is adjacent to the hill behind Palazzo Salice-Scolari and is accessed via a bridge that crosses a stream.

It consists of two distinct parts: the particular one with terraced embankments on two levels, which offer an original aesthetic view, and the external part characterized by a path, accompanied by a low hedge, leading to a panoramic point where it is possible to admire Polcenigo in its architectural and landscape complexity.

One of the paths leads to an artificial cave enriched by the presence of water, probably the result of one of the hydraulic interventions that made Quaglia's ingenuity and landscape sensitivity famous. The hermit reputation that permeates the figure of the engineer seems to have originated from his habit of spending several solitary hours in the park from which he could see the cemetery where his young wife was buried.

The garden path of Palazzo Salice-Scolari offers interesting insights as a botanical trail, as the dedicated portion of the hill hosts various species of trees, not all spontaneous, marked with tags identifying their names in Italian and Latin.

The terraces of the Italian garden of Palazzo Salice-Scolari were restored in 1985, and the final result respected the original structure as conceived and realized by engineer Pietro Quaglia.

The flow of water, a natural element favored by engineer Quaglia, was employed by him in the various important gardens he designed in Friuli: the park of Villa Policreti in Castello d’Aviano, the park of Palazzo Antonini (now Banca d’Italia) in Udine, and that of Villa Manin in Passariano.