Museo Galleria Colonna

In the same area dominated today by the majestic, imposing Palazzo Colonna, there originally stood various small buildings, erected by the ancient, noble Roman family, descending from the counts of Tusculum. Most of the ancient vestiges, the earliest of which date from the thirteenth century, were incorporated in a single, ambitious architectural complex, which was begun in the mid seventeenth century and completed during the eighteenth century, when the two new façades along Piazza dei SS. Apostoli and Via della Pilotta were added. The family's celebrated art collection, one of the most important Roman collections that developed after the Renaissance, is still housed in the most famous wing of the Palazzo, the renowned Galleria Colonna, an extraordinary, magnificent example of Baroque architecture, built and decorated from the mid seventeenth century on by Cardinal Girolamo Colonna I and opened in 1730.

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Contact Information

Museo Galleria Colonna
Piazza SS. Apostoli, 66
00179 Roma

Tel. +39685301758

http://www.romeguide.it