ROME

Palaces

Barberini Palace (via delle Quattro Fontane)	Borghese Palace (Piazza Borghese)	Chigi Palace (Piazza Colonna)
Colonna Palace (Piazza Santi Apostoli)	Corsini Palace (via della Lungara, 10)	Doria Pamphili Palace (via del Corso)
Farnese Palace (Piazza Farnese)	Lateran Palace (Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano)	Quirinale Palace (Piazza del Quirinale)
Palace of Expositions (via Nazionale 194)	Palace of Montecitorio (Piazza di Montecitorio)	Madama Palace (Corso del Rinascimento)
Massimo alle Colonne Palace (Corso Vittorio Emanuele)	Farnesina Palace (Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 168)	Senatorial Palace (Piazza del Campidoglio)
Spada Palace (Piazza Capo di Ferro)	Venezia Palace (Via del Plebiscito)	Pantheon (Piazza della Rotonda)

Pantheon (Piazza della Rotonda)
This is the most well-preserved monument of ancient Rome, built in 27 B.C. by Marco Vipsanio Agrippa and rebuilt in its present form under the rule of the Emperor Hadrian between 119 and 128 A.D. The building has a circular plan with an entranceway (Greek prònaos) held up by 16 columns in grey and pink granite, decorated with Corinthian capitals. Inside one can admire the immense panelled dome, 43.3 meters in diameter, with an "eye" at the center (9 meters across), the only opening through which light can enter; the niches separated by columns and a passageway that leads along the edge of the cornice-works around the inside of the dome. The tombs of two Italian kings, Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I, and that of Raphael, with an inscription by Bembo, are conserved within.