PALACE OF THE OLD GOVERNMENT

PALAZZO DEL GOVERNO VECCHIO

Via del Governo Vecchio 39

1473/77 for Cardinal Stefano Nardini appointed governor of Rome by Pope Paul II Barbo (1464/71)

It is also known as Palazzo Nardini

Cardinal Nardini donated it in 1475 to the Pio Ospedale del Salvatore in Laterano (Devout Hospital of the Saviour at the Lateran) to use it as headquarters of the Academy of Arts and Humanities

In 1624 the Hospital of the Savior gave the palace to the Apostolic Chamber for Urban VIII Barberini (1623/44) had decided to use it as the seat of the Governor of Rome

In 1755 Benedict XIV Lambertini (1740/58) moved all the offices in the new Government Palace, i.e. Palazzo Madama, and Palazzo Nardini became the Palazzo del Governo Vecchio (Palace of the Old Government), whose name was later transferred also to the street

From 1870 it was the seat of the Pretura Civile (District Civil Court)

Since 1964 it belongs to the city of Rome and it is abandoned and awaiting resettlement

In 1977 the film Doppio Delitto (Double Murder) was shot here, with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov and Ursula Andress from the book Doppia morte al Governo Vecchio (Double Death at the Old Government)

DE SANGRO PALACE

PALAZZO DE SANGRO

Piazza dell'Orologio/Via del Governo Vecchio 7

About 1575. It was completed in the second half of the seventeenth century

The architects' names are unknown

Formerly known as Palazzo Boncompagni Corcos from the name of the first owners of the original building, the Corcos, a Jewish family who converted and took up the name Boncompagni

It became property of the De Sangro family that had it built in its present form

At the end of the eighteenth century it returned back to the Boncompagni family that, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, joined the seventeenth-century building to a new building with connected courtyards

The sinuous WINDOWS are among the most beautiful in Rome

TURCI SMALL PALACE

PALAZZETTO TURCI

Via del Governo Vecchio 124

Beginning of the sixteenth century for Giovanni Pietro Turci from Novara, secretary of Leo X Medici (1513/21), using the structure of an existing tower

The FAÇADE was rebuilt in the seventeenth century

It is mistakenly called PALAZZETTO DEL BRAMANTE (Bramante Small Palace)