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ROME
Palaces
Lateran Palace (Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano)
Papal See until 1309, year of the Avignon exile, it was destroyed by fire in the fourteenth century. In 1586 Sixtus V charged Domenico Fontana with the reconstruction of the palace. He gave it the present structure, with three monumental vistas and a vast courtyard with three levels of arches. Together with the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, it belongs to the Vatican and has the privileges of extraterritoriality. Presently it is the headquarters of the Roman Vicarate. |
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