Palazzo Braschi is a large, late Roccoco palace in Rome, Italy. It is located between Piazza Navona, Campo de Fiori (and Corso Vittorio Emanuele II), and the Piazza di Pasquino. It presently houses the civic museum of Rome (Museo di Roma). It was designed by Morelli and built over a number of decades of the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. This article or section should include material from Rococo Furniture Style. ... The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. ... Fountain of the four Rivers with Egyptian obelisk, in the middle of Piazza Navona Piazza Navona is a square in Rome. ... Pasquin (Italian: Pasquino) was the name ordinary Romans gave to an ancient statue dug up and erected in the Piazza Navona around 1500. ...
The main entrance is on Via San Pantaleo (between Piazza Navona and Corso Vittorio Emanuele). The oval hall at the main entrance overlooks via San Pantaleo, and leads to the monumental staircase with its eighteen red granite columns coming from the gallery built by emperor Caligula on the banks of the Tiber. Along the staircase there are ancient sculptures and fine stuccoes, inspired by Achilles’ myth. The architect Giuseppe Valadier probably contributed to its execution. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 31, 12 – January 24, 41), most commonly known as Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a member of the Julio-Claudian dynastyhe also liked to have sex with animals, ruling from 37 to 41. ... Giuseppe Valadier (April 14, 1762– February 1, 1839) was an Italian architect and designer, urban planner and archeologist, a chief exponent of Neoclassicism in Italy. ...
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