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4 days ago · The Palazzo del Quirinale (Quirinal Palace), built by Pope Gregory XIII in 1574 as a summer palace away from the heat and malaria of the Vatican, was enlarged and embellished over the next 200 years by a succession of noted architects. The palace, with many extensions and wings, is huge, and its garden is five times as big as the building.
Jun 28, 2024 · Palazzo Quirinale has had a long and convoluted story that spans the last four hundred years. Built in Rome at the end of the 16th century, it has been in turn the home of popes, French emperors, Italian kings and currently, Italian Presidents of the Republic.
4 days ago · Rome, historic city and the capital of Italy. It is in the central part of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber River. Once capital of an ancient republic and empire and seat of the Roman Catholic Church, it became the site of major pinnacles of artistic and intellectual development and is called the Eternal City.
2 days ago · Pope Paulus V commissioned the Quirinal Palace The Quirinal Palace, 1777 During the Renaissance , the Papal territory expanded greatly, notably under Popes Alexander VI and Julius II . The Pope became one of Italy's most important secular rulers as well as the head of the Church, signing treaties with other sovereigns and fighting wars.
4 days ago · Site of the Circus Maximus, Rome, with the ruins of the imperial palace on Palatine Hill in the background. (more) On this hill the columns of lost palaces rise in uncompromised beauty from fields of wildflowers and the dust of history.
Jun 20, 2024 · We are pleased to offer a virtual tour of The Colonna Garden on the Quirinal Hill, made with 360° high quality photographs. This Virtual Reality content also includes informations and details on history that this section of Palazzo Colonna preserves and perpetuates.
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Jun 16, 2024 · The new exhibition, at Scuderie del Quirinale, is an homage to the Neapolitan Nineteenth Century, a time of extraordinary value for arts and culture in Italy and all over Europe. The time frame described in exhibition is not just a century but a much longer time.
