It was November 1575, some old houses in the ancient village were adapted as the seat of the University, that is, of the Municipal Government. Following the Portulano's appeal for the occupation of cm. 26 and a half of public land, the Royal Chamber of the Summary, on March 14, 1602, decided on the matter and established that the University was not further harassed. The adaptation works of the Seat were resumed in 1657 - 58 and again in 1674. The seat became the symbol of the power of citizens and people after the disappearance of feudalism.
The building was abandoned in 1835 because it needed urgent repairs and the seat of the city government moved to the former Carmelite Convent.

In 1905, the Seat underwent the last structural refurbishment which made it completely lose its ancient appearance. The city coat of arms with the date 1603 are visible on the façade. Unfortunately, in this phase of modernization the ancient and famous paintings that adorned the entrance hall were destroyed.

The Seat is similar to those built in Rome by Caesar Octavian and other Emperors, with arcades and iron gates.

 

The public clock that marked the time in the center of the village that currently surmounts the Seat, according to the historian Casulli, was first placed on the facade of the old bell tower of St. Peter's Basilica, then it was placed in its current place. The original dial was of majolica, the latter now preserved in the Karusio villa, and in the center an arrow to indicate the hours, which were signaled with no more than six bell tolls and repeated after the first 5 minutes.

Around 1870 the other bell was added to signal the quarter of an hour by the fellow citizen Vincenzo Pagliarulo. In 1884 the watchmaker Francesco Pagliarulo changed the hour chime, bringing it from six to twelve strokes and replaced the old dial with the current one, translucent, to be illuminated at night.