1875/89 as
MINISTRY OF WAR
Today it is
the headquarters of the ARMY STAFF AND THE GENERAL SECRETARIAT OF DEFENSE
More than
120,000 volumes and 1,000 journals both Italian and foreign as well as about
1,200 antique books
In the
basement is partially preserved the BUNKER where on the night between 8 and 9
September 1943 general Pietro Badoglio and members of the Italian royal family
came from the nearby Palazzo del Quirinale
to escape the chaos that followed the armistice between the Italian government
and the Allied Forces
On the
other side of Via XX Settembre there are four palaces built during the same
period:
PALAZZO BOURBON 1884 at No. 3 and PALAZZO CALABRESI 1882 at
No. 5 by Gaetano Koch (1849/1910)
PALAZZO
BARACCHINI 1886 at No. 8 and PALAZZO CAPRARA 1884 at No. 11 by Giulio Podesti (1857/1909)
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