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Palazzo Senatorio (the Town hall and Mayor of Rome's office, Italy), in Piazza Campidoglio, seen from the top of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II.


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 British would call a “block of flats” or a tenement.

Etymology

The words “palazzo” (Italian), “palace” (English) or “palais” (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.

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Palazzo can be:
  • palazzo, an Italian type of building
  • part of a commune name, for example:
  • Palazzo Adriano is a commune in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy.

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palace is the home of a head of state or other high-ranking public figure. In some countries, such as Italy, the term is also applied to some private mansions. Many palaces are now put to other uses such as parliaments or museums.
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Il Canto degli Italiani
(also known as Fratelli d'Italia)


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An apartment building, block of flats or tenement is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US) or flats (UK).
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The Palatine Hill,
one of the seven hills of Rome
In Latin / Italian Palatium /
Colle Palatino
Rione Campitelli
Buildings Flavian Palace

People Cicero, Augustus, Tiberius, Domitian
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Comune di Roma

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Nickname: "The Eternal City"
Motto: "Senatus Populusque Romanus" (SPQR)   (Latin)
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patrician" originally referred to a group of elite families in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high court officials.
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For other meanings of Julius see Julius (disambiguation)


Julius (fem. Julia) is the nomen of the gens Julia, an important patrician family of ancient Rome supposed to have descended from Julus, and thus from the goddess Venus.
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Augustus Caesar
Emperor of the Roman Empire

Reign January 16 27 BC – August 19 AD 14
Full name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
Born September 23, 63 BC
Rome, Roman Republic
Died August 19, AD 14 (age 76)
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Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman State during the imperial period (from about 27 BC onwards). The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin titles such as imperator (from which English Emperor derives), augustus, caesar and
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Gaius Julius Caesar
Dictator of the Roman Republic

Reign October, 49 BC–March 15, 44 BC
Full name Gaius Julius Caesar
Born 12 July 100 BC - 102 BC
Rome, Roman Republic
Died 15 March 44 BC (aged 57)
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The Palatine Hill,
one of the seven hills of Rome
In Latin / Italian Palatium /
Colle Palatino
Rione Campitelli
Buildings Flavian Palace

People Cicero, Augustus, Tiberius, Domitian
Events
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Synonyms (in ancient Greek, συν ("syn") = plus and όνομα ("onoma") = name
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This is a list of palazzi in Italy, sorted by town or city.

Bologna

  • Palazzo d'Accursio
  • Palazzo dei Notai
  • Palazzo del Podestà
  • Palazzo Re Enzo

Caprarola

  • Palazzo Farnese

Caserta

  • Palazzo Reale


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