Palazzo
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Palazzo is more broadly used in Italian than its English equivalent "palace". In Italy, a palazzo is a grand building of some architectural ambition that is the headquarters of a family of some renown or of an institution, or even what the English call a "block of flats". The words "palazzo" (Italian), "palace" (English and French) and the other similar words come from the name of the Palatine hill in Rome. On this hill the patrician family Julia ("gens Julia" in Latin) owned some land and built their residence. When Octavian became Roman emperor after his succession to Julius Caesar their home and the name of the Palatine hill itself became synonymous with Imperial residence.
Palazzi with their own entries include:
- Palazzo Barbarigo, Venice
- Palazzo Barberini, Rome
- Palazzo della Cancelleria, Rome
- Palazzo Ducale, Venice
- Palazzo Farnese, Rome
- Palazzo Foscari, Venice
- Palazzo Medici, Florence
- Palazzo Pamphilj, Rome
- Palazzo Piccolomini, Pienza
- Palazzo Pitti, Florence
- Palazzo Rucellai, Florence
- Palazzo Salvadori, Trento
- Palazzo Spada, Rome
- Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
- Palazzo del Te, outside Mantua
- Palazzo del Vaticano, Vatican City, Rome
- Palazzo di Venezia, Rome
In Venice some palazzi are conventionally called Ca' ("casa"):
[edit] communes
- Palazzo Adriano is a commune in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy.
- Palazzo Canavese is a commune in the province of Turin, in Piemonte, Italy.
- Palazzo Pignano is a commune in the province of Cremona, Italy.
- Palazzo San Gervasio is a commune in the province of Potenza, in Basilicata, Italy.
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