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Casina of Cardinal Bessarion – a summer house from the Renaissance

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Casino dell’Aurora – a pearl of art of an entrepreneurial papal nepot

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Casino di Villa Doria Pamphilj – a symbol of social status and a tool of international rivalries

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Casino Ludovisi – a cardinal’s idyll on the outskirts of the city

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Palazzo Altemps - a refined ambience for a treasury of antique art

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Palazzo Altieri – the pride of a papal family

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Palazzo Barberini – a monument of papal ambitions, of which the likes Rome had never before seen

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Palazzo Doria Pamphilj – a palace famous for its love of art

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Palazzo di Firenze – the unloved residence of the de’ Medici family

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Palazzo Mattei di Giove – a salon and an open-air museum

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Palazzo Pamphilj – a residence of a woman of iron will and untamed ambition

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Palazzo Venezia – a residence of popes, ambassadors and Fascists

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Perspective Gallery of Palazzo Spada – fiction and reality, meaning architectural games with the senses

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The Hall of Constantine (Stanza di Constantino) – a hymn praising the papacy

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Villa Aldobrandini – a place of respite over the city teeming with life

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Villa Farnesina – built with the thought of eternal glory

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Villa Giulia – the earthly paradise of Pope Julius III

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Villa of Maxentius – the rural residence of an unfortunate ruler

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Villa Medici – a Florentine and French enclave on Pincio Hill