About
1420/25 for Martin V Colonna (1417/31) the first pope to return permanently to
Rome after the exile in Avignon
The palace
was the papal seat from 1420 until 1431
It was
built over a preexisting castle of the counts Tuscolani dating back to before
the year 1000, in turn built on the ruins of the TEMPLE
OF SERAPIS, the largest temple in Rome with the Temple of Venus
and Rome
Expanded
with the GALLERIA COLONNA from about 1650 by Antonio
Del Grande (about 1625/79) and then after 1671 by Girolamo Fontana (1668/1701)
(nephew of Carlo Fontana)
Partly
rebuilt in 1730 by Nicola Michetti (about
1675/1758) who designed the FAÇADES ON PIAZZA Ss. APOSTOLI and PIAZZA IV
NOVEMBRE and by Paolo Posi (1708/76) who
designed the BACK OF THE PALACE with the BRIDGES that join it with Villa Colonna
Changes to
the façade on Via IV Novembre 1879 by Andrea Busiri
Vici (1818/1911)
It has
belonged to the Colonna family for twenty-three generations
FORMER
COFFEE-HAUS
Small Wax
Museum with, on the second floor, ROOM WITH OCTAGONAL VAULT and fresco “Fable
of Cupid and Psyche” by Antonio Mancini
(1852/1930)
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