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Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne

Address: Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 141, Navona, Rome | Map It

Category: Castles/Palaces
Location: Navona and Campo

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A curving, columned portico identifies this otherwise inconspicuous palace on a traffic-swept bend of busy Corso Vittorio Emanuele. In the 1530s the noted Renaissance architect Baldassare Peruzzi adapted the structure of an earlier palace belonging to the Massimo family, transforming it to suit the clan's high rank in the papal aristocracy and its status as the oldest of Rome's noble families, older than even the Colonna and Orsini clans. If you're here on March 16, you'll be able to go upstairs in the palace, seeing the antique livery on the servants and the courtyard and loggias on your way to the family chapel. On this day the public is invited inside to take part in commemorations of a prodigious miracle performed here in 1583 by Philip Neri, who is said to have recalled a young member of the family, one Paolo Massimo, from the dead.

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