Palazzo Braschi

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  • Palazzo Braschi
  • Type: palazzi
    Date: 1790
    Period: Settecento (Had been fully expressed in Bernini, Borromini’s works. Ferdinando Fuga expressed a neoclassic influence (Facciata di Santa Maria Maggiore))

    Address: piazza San Pantaleo
    (Centro Storico)
    Zone: Rione VI Parione

    Horary: 9-19 - closed Monday
    Ticket: € 7,50 (€ 5,50 reduced)
    Phone: 06060608
    Internet: www.museodiroma.comune.ro...
  • The published information is subject to change, so we suggest you telephone to confirm.

  • This museum keeps a wide and most interesting collection of sculptures, paintings and things of daily use which testify Rome's uses and customs from the Middle Ages up to the XIX century

Location and History

You can find this museum in Braschi Palace which, placed in "Piazza San Pantaleo", is the last great palace that was commissioned by a Pope for his own family. It was built, as a matter of fact, at the end of the XVIII century by the architect Morelli

Description

You can admire the remarkable little chapel realized by Valadier and the most beautiful great staircase planned by Morelli

  • Realization by

Cosimo Morelli (Architetto)

  • Commissioned by

Giovanni Angelo Braschi said Pope Pio VI (Pontefice)

  • Artists

Prospero Mochi (n.d.)

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