Alloggio Storico
Situata nel Palazzo Ruspoli del XVI secolo, questa residenza è intrisa di storia. Prende il nome da Napoleone III, che vi risiedette un tempo, e presenta affreschi originali e arredi d'epoca che riflettono il suo retaggio aristocratico.
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Qual è la storia dell'immobile?
The Residenza Napoleone III is located in the historical Palazzo Ruspoli. The Palazzo was bought in 1583, by Orazio Rucellai, a member of the noble Florentine family that had made Rome the center of its financial policies in the train of Cardinal Piero Rucellai, thanks to the two Medici popes, Leo X and Clement VII. In 1627, two years after his brother Luigi’s death, Ferdinando Rucellai sold the great mansion to the Caetani of Sermoneta for 51,500 florins.
This old family, which boasted prelates, men of arms, and diplomats among its members, In 1713 the nobility of the Palazzo was again enhanced when it was rented by the Ruspoli family, who were of Florentine origin but had been in Rome since the fourteenth century.
They were the marquises of Cerveteri, and, from 1709, princes, starting with Francesco Maria (1672-1731).
The Ruspoli were financially secure when they bought the property, concluding the sale in 1776 and starting improvements on it immediately thereafter.
It was with the Ruspoli family that the most refined and triumphant period of its history would take place. The palace still belongs to them.
Qual è l'epoca e/o lo stile architettonico in cui è stato costruito l'immobile?
XVI century
L'immobile è circondato da altri edifici storici?
Yes, because the property is located in the historical centre of Rome.
Sono stati eseguiti lavori di restauro?
Yes
Ci sono elementi di particolare importanza storica nell'edificio?
Painted ceilings
Marble busts
Colonnade
The main feature of the Ruspoli Palace was its great staircase.
Each of its four flights was made up of thirty monolithic marble steps that rose from the portico on the side facing Largo Goldoni.
It was popularly considered one of the “four marvels” of Rome, along with the Borghese Cembalo, the Farnese Dado, and the portal of the Sciarra Colonna.
It was built in 1640 by the Caetani family, the third owners of the building which at that time already had its own history.
The original structure dates back to 1556 when Francesco Iacobilli had it built on the area at the corner of Via del Corso, Via della Fontanella Borghese, Via del Leoncino and Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina.
The architect was probably Nanni di Baccio Bigio.
Ci sono ospiti importanti o proprietari precedenti che meritano di essere menzionati?
Napoleon III and his mother the Queen of Holland Hortense de Beaurnhais.
The musician Haendel.
Ci sono eventi significativi che hanno avuto luogo nella proprietà in passato?
The property was mentioned in the novel "The Count of Montecristo" by Alexandre Dumas and by Goethe during his Italian journey.
L'immobile ha ricevuto certificazioni per il suo status storico?
Yes
Descriverebbe la sua proprietà come (o lo è mai stata in passato) un:
