- This monument was built during the fourteenth century and it was used immediately as a hospital.
The actual "Monte Frumentario", or wheat-broker, was not set up as an institution as such until the seventeenth century.
This institution differed from the "Monte di Pietà", the pawn-broker institution that gave out money, in that it handled wheat and other agricultural products. Naturally,
the loan was made based on a pawn system.
There is a stone tablet in the colonnade area that bears the date of 1633. This was the date on which this type of activity began, although it was not fully transferred
here until 1746.
The Oliviera Fountain, built in 1570, is located to the right of the Monte Frumentario.
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