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ROME
Palaces
Farnesina Palace (Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 168)
A stupendous Renaissance palace begun in 1523 according to the plans of Antonio Sangallo the Younger and finished in 1546, it was constructed for the French prelate Thomas le Roy. Le Roy was the intermediary between Francesco I, King of France, and Pope Leo X. The facade that faces Corso Vittorio Emanuele was designed by Enrico Gui in the twentieth century. Now the building is the property of the city of Rome and houses the Baracca Museum, with sculpture from the Egyptian, Assyrian-Babylonian, Phoenicean, Etruscan, Greek and Roman periods. |
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