It's really easy to miss the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili. It sits on an entire block on the Corso, but it's gray and somber and very nondescript from the exterior. That said, you enter from a beautiful courtyard, one of many, and walk through what they now use for parking, a lovely marble hall with niches and statues up a flight of stairs to the main level.
It's arguably the largest of Rome's privately owned palazzi and one of only five allowed a throne room and it has the added attraction of having it's own chapel with the mummified remains of the family saint.
A little red sign reminding you that this is private property.
Park in here!
The main landing on the piano nobile
Looking into the enfilade. Lose cameras all ye who enter here.
[From Palaces of Rome]
There are many rooms in this palazzo, all are grand and those pictured above surround the inner courtyard. There's the feeling of a place preserved in amber here. There's a very 1930's 'tea with Mussolini' living room and bed room, all dust and decay and the main rooms covered in plastic, yes PLASTIC, slipcovers on the ancient velvet doesn't help the tired feeling.
The palace was renovated in 1767 for the marriage of Andrae IV Doria-Pamphili and the Princess Leopolda Maria of Savoy. The collection is lovely but it's just screaming for a redo.....somehow this feels really old, but not in a good way. Worth a visit if you have the extra time.
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