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

BONCOMPAGNI PALACE

PALAZZO BONCOMPAGNI

Via Vittorio Veneto 119 a

1886/90 Gaetano Koch (1849/1910) for Rodolfo Boncompagni Ludovisi after the Boncompagni Ludovisi Palace in Piazza Colonna had been destroyed

Also known as Palazzo Piombino for the principality of Piombino in Tuscany belonging to the Boncompagni Ludovisi family or as Palazzo Margherita because it was the residence of Queen Margherita of Savoy, mother of King Victor Emmanuel III

She lived here after the death in 1900 of her husband and cousin King Umberto I (sovereign of Italy from 1878 to 1900) until 1924

The Savoy family had bought the palace from the Boncompagni Ludovisi in financial difficulties

On the occasion of a visit of Queen Margherita of Savoy in Naples, the Neapolitan pizza makers invented PIZZA MARGHERITA with the colors of the Italian flag: mozzarella for white, tomato for red and basil for green

It is the seat of the U.S. embassy since 1931

At the center of the hall “Nude Venus” by the Flemish sculptor Jean Boulogne aka Giambologna (1529/1608)

“The building, in eclectic mold, is the result of the research project of Koch, who experiences a form of abstract neoclassicism, derived from the work of Sangallo, where the architectural elements of classical derivation are subject to an intensive work of figurative simplification” (Giorgio Muratore)

Palazzo Grande di Villa Ludovisi

Great Palace of Villa Ludovisi

Incorporated and leaning against the back of Palazzo Boncompagni

Beginning 1600, maybe by Carlo Maderno (1556/1629) or Domenico Zampieri aka Domenichino (1581/1641) for Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi nephew of Gregory XV Ludovisi (1621/23)