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Palazzo di Quirinale Roma

Historic Architecture in the Italian Capital City: Quirinal Palace – Roman building photographs, Italy, Europe

page updated Sep 19, 2017

Location: Piazza di Quirinale, northeast Rome

Palazzo del Quirinale

The Quirinal Palace is a historic building in Rome, Italy, one of the three current official residences of the President of the Italian Republic, together with Villa Rosebery in Naples and Tenuta di Castelporziano in Rome.

It is located on the Quirinal Hill, the highest of the seven hills of Rome. It has housed thirty Popes, four Kings of Italy and twelve presidents of the Italian Republic.

The palace extends for an area of 110,500 square metres and is the ninth-largest palace in the world in terms of area. By way of comparison, the White House in the United States of America is one-twentieth of its size.

The palace is composed of the main building, which is built around the majestic courtyard, with the most beautiful halls and rooms of the complex environments that serve as representative of the Presidency of the Republic, while the offices and apartments of the head of state are housed in the Fuga building at the end of the Manica lunga, the long building on the side of Quirinal street (via del Quirinale in Italian).

The rooms of the palace housed in the main building are as follows, in approximate order of importance:

The Staircase of Honour
The Great Hall of the Cuirassiers
The Pauline Chapel
The First State Room
The Room of the Virtues
The Room of the Flood
The Room of the Loggias
The Doorkeepers Room
The Balcony Room
The St. John Parlour
The Yellow Room
The Augustus Room
The Ambassadors Room
The Hercules Room
The Cabinets Room
The Mascarino Staircase
The Loggia of Honour
The Bees Room
The Zodiac Room
The Room of Paul V factories
The Tapestries Room
The Chapel of the Annunciation
The Mirrors Room
The Great Hall of Banquets
The Bronzino Room
The Druso Room
The president’s former audience room
The Lilla Tapestries Toom
The Napoleonic Parlour
The Piffetti Library
The Music Room
The War Room or Victory Room
The Peace Room
The Ladies Room