Palazzo Pamphilj is one of the most important buildings on Piazza Navona, overlooking the Moor Fountain by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Built between 1644 and 1650 by the architect Girolamo Rainaldi, it was the family palace of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphilj, made Pope in the 1644 with the name of Innocenzo X Pamphilj. Both the building […]
by Emanuele Buffa
Palazzo Braschi, seat of the civic museum of Rome (Museo di Roma) since 1952, boasts an enviable location in the very centre of Rome between Piazza Navona, Piazza di Pasquini, Corso Vittorio Emanuele and the popular Campo de’ Fiori. During the 16th century, this area was occupied by another palace built by Giuliano da Sangallo […]
by Emanuele Buffa
Palazzo Altemps, located in Piazza di Sant’Apollinare, in front of Piazza Navona, is a beautiful building founded during the 15th century by Girolamo Riario and Caterina Sforza, and lately rebuilt by Martino Longhi il Vecchio for a Deutch cardinal, Marco Sittico Altemps. Seat of ancient collection since the 16th century, in the 1982 it was […]
by Emanuele Buffa
The Barracco Museum in Corso Vittorio in Rome boasts the prestigious and peculiar collection of antique sculpture donated to Rome by the rich Calabrese collector Giovanni Barracco in 1904. Initially exposed in a classical building by Gaetano Koch, after its demolition n 1938 due to the opening of Corso Vittorio Emanuele, the collection was housed […]
by Emanuele Buffa
