PIUS PALACE

PALAZZO PIO

Via della Conciliazione 2

1942 Marcello Piacentini (1881/1960) and Attilio Spaccarelli (1890/1975) in collaboration with Gino Cipriani

Built at the same time of the “twin” INA PALACE on the opposite side of the road

It is partly used by Vatican Radio and partly leased to the RAI (the Italian national broadcast service) to host radio and television studios

AUDITORIO PIO

1947/51 Marcello Piacentini and Giorgio Calza Bini (1908/99), formerly rented for decades to the Academy of St. Cecilia. The greatest interpreters of classical music of the whole world have performed here

Windows on the stairs by Giorgio Quaroni (1907/60)

FOUNTAIN

1957. In front of Largo Giovanni XXIII

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)