🔸A real hidden gem near Piazza Navona 💎
🔸Palazzo Altemps is a place you definitely must visit if you want to go beyond the main landmarks of Rome
🔸What is the story (in brief) of Palazzo Altemps?
🔸The palace was built in the 1400s by the nephew of pope Sixtus IV (the pope that made the Sistine chapel!)
🔸A hundred years later the palace was bought by an Austrian cardinal, called Marco Sittico Altemps, nephew of the pope Pius IV
🔸Cardinal Altemps established his residency in this palace, and that’s where the name of this place comes from: Palazzo Altemps
🔸He also decorated this palace with beautiful frescoes and chose this as the location for his collection of antiquities and books
🔸To make the long story short, the palace changed property over the years, until in 1982 it became property of the Italian State, and it was eventually turned into the beautiful museum that we can see today
🔸Palazzo Altemps houses some of the most incredible ancient sculptures, not only from the Altemps collection but also coming from other noble families, such as the Boncompagni Ludovisi and Mattei
🔸Visiting Palazzo Altemps means walking through a series of colorful and beautiful rooms, corridors that take you to incredible marbles. It’s like a continuous discovery room after room 🤩
🔸I am expecting to add this wonderful place into your bucket lists NOW! 😉
🔸Palazzo Altemps is part of the museum complex of the Museo Nazionale Romano. This means that with ONE ticket you can visit not one, but FOUR museums! 🤯 Such as Diocletian baths, Crypta Balbi and Palazzo Massimo! 🤩
🔸Now tell me, are you not going asap to visit this wonder?? 😉
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