Moreover, in front of the entrance of Altamura Cathedral (the area of the current palazzo Melodia), there was a refuge for the poor, known as hospitium maioris ecclesie.

[3] As shown in the same drawing (P/33) of Angelo Rocca, today's clock tower hadn't been built at that time yet.

[4] Previously, in the same place where today it is the clock tower there was the seggio, a sort of stage in which the representatives of both nobles and commoners met in order to discuss the issues the city had to face.

Initially, the seggio was located in the area of the current chapel of San Biagio (alongside the Church of San Nicola dei Greci); in the end of the 16th century, it was moved to the area where the clock tower is located now; in 1654, it was demolished and rebuilt in the same place.

Graziano Filo first attacked Epifanio Corrado, "who wounded fell to the caissons of the square, where the fruits were sold".