The Palazzo d'Invrea stands on the main square of Pontinvrea, a low porticoed building from the seventeenth century built by the marchesi d'Invrea, the Genoese family who took the village in fief from the Gonzaga in 1606. The frontage is restrained — arches at street level, a row of regular windows above — and you would walk past it without a second glance if you did not know what it was.
The building today serves as the town hall (municipio) and is generally not open to visitors beyond the public offices. The interest is mostly architectural and historical: it is one of the few surviving examples of a fief-holder's residence in this part of the inner Ligurian hills, and it gives the small central square its character.