PECCI BLUNT PALACE

PALAZZO PECCI BLUNT

Piazza Aracoeli 3

Built in early 1500s

It was owned by the families Paluzzi Albertoni, Gottardi and Fani who restructured it with Giacomo Della Porta (1533/1602)

Then it belonged to the Spada family and since 1632 to the Ruspoli who had their first residence in Rome here and remained until 1745, when they moved into the building in Via del Corso and sold it to the Malatesta family

In 1599 St. Charles Borromeo lived here

Finally, it was bought in 1929 by the Pecci Blunt family, current owners, the family of Pope Leo XIII Pecci (1878/1903)

SECOND FLOOR

Frescoes “Stories of the Old Testament” by Federico Zuccari (about 1542/1609) and Taddeo Zuccari (1529/66)

LOGGIA

Frescoes by Raffaellino Motta aka Raffaellino da Reggio (1550/78)

PINK ROOM

Paintings by Gaspar van Wittel (1653/1736)

MUTI BUSSI PALACE

PALAZZO MUTI BUSSI

Piazza Aracoeli 2

Begun at the end of 1500s by Giacomo Della Porta (1533/1602)

Completed in the years 1642/62 by Giovanni Antonio De Rossi (1616/95)

At the beginning of the nineteenth century Cecilia Muti married Giulio Bussi originally from Orvieto and the names of the families were united until the end of the line in 1972

MASSIMO DI RIGNANO PALACE

PALAZZO MASSIMO DI RIGNANO

Piazza Aracoeli 1

Original building in the fifteenth century. It belonged to the Boccabella family

Completely renovated in late 1600s by Carlo Fontana (1634/1714)

Also known as PALAZZO MASSIMO DI RIGNANO COLONNA after the wedding at the end of 1800s of the heiress Maria Massimo with Prospero Colonna mayor of Rome

The Massimo family split into two branches in the sixteenth century: the Massimo Delle Colonne from the name of the building now on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in which they still live and the Dukes of Rignano also known as Massimo di Aracoeli whose male line ended

In 1939 one corner of the building was cut off for the opening of Via del Mare

Portal with plant motifs and embattled observatory tower of Duke Mario Massimo built in the early 1900s

In the courtyard FOUNTAIN OF THE MERMAN as well by Carlo Fontana

On the top floor the famous actress Sophia Loren lived for a while