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Palazzo della Cancelleria

Palazzo della Cancelleria, perhaps the palazzo that best represents the passage from the Medieval period to the Renaissance. Behind the solemn façade, created with the travertine blocks taken from the Colosseum we discover one of the most important courtyards of the Roman Renaissance. On first floor two of the biggest great hall or Fome, the Sala Riaria adn the famous Sala dei cento Giorni, painted with frescoes by Vasari in 1545. In the subterranean is hidden a grave dated at I cen. b.C. now underwater.
area: Piazza Navona (city centre)
typology: palace
dating: 15/16th cen.
style: Early- Renaissance
what to do: guided tours
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