PALACE OF THE BANK OF ITALY

PALAZZO DELLA BANCA D'ITALIA

Via Nazionale 90/91

1887/1892 Gaetano Koch (1849/1910)

Offices of the senior management of the bank, some departments of the central administration and “Paolo Baffi” library

ROOM OF THE COUNCIL

Frescoes by Giulio Bargellini (1896/1936)

Museo della Moneta

Museum of Coins

Selection of about 40 tablets of Mesopotamian origin. Studies of these tablets proved that from the third millennium BC silver and gold were used as means of payment, measure of value and store of wealth

About 800 coins in gold, silver, copper and alloy from the ancient Greek period to modern times, including “Silver Stater of King Croesus” 561/546 BC

450 notes and paper documents

ODDO COLLECTION with over 3,800 pieces of gold, silver, copper and alloy from emissions of southern Italy and Sicily referring to the period from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to modern age

INA PALACE ON VIA BISSOLATI

PALAZZO DELL'INA IN VIA BISSOLATI

Via Leonida Bissolati 23

1936/44 Marcello Piacentini (1881/1960) on the site of the demolished Villa Massimo

In two niches of the atrium statues “Savings” and “Providence” by Antonio Maraini (1886/1963)

In the middle of the staircase ancient “Sarcophagus with the myth of Meleager with Calydon boar hunt” of the second century AD

Two panels by Giulio Bargellini (1896/1936)

“Portrait of Vittorio Emanuele III” by Adolfo Wildt (1868/1931)

VIMINAL PALACE

PALAZZO DEL VIMINALE

Piazza del Viminale

1912/21 Manfredo Manfredi (1859/1627)

Semicircular arrangement of the square 1929/31 according to the Manfredi's project

“The complex consists of several buildings connected by courtyards and varying characteristics in terms of volume and indicates the existence of a secret dialectic between the severity of the general project and the desire to qualify artistically this architecture as much as possible” (Raffaella Catini - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

Fountain in front of the palace by Publio Morbiducci (1889/1963) in imitation of the “Barcaccia” in Piazza di Spagna by Pietro Bernini

The area was leveled and the soil was brought to the area where later the Città Universitaria (University City) would be built

It is the HEADQUARTERS OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR

HALL

Paintings in ten panels “Activities of the Italian Genius i.e. Navigation, Poetry, Sculpture, Wheat Harvest, Printing, Weaving, Science, Architecture, Industry, Grapes Harvest and Victorious Italy in the center” by Rodolfo Villani (1881/1941)

ROOM OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Paintings by Giulio Bargellini (1896/1936)

Paintings in the other rooms by Umberto Vico, Umberto Amati e Tito Ridolfi (1886/1956)