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Villa Altieri

Address

Address: Viale Manzoni, 47
Zone: Rione Esquilino (Termini-Via Nazionale) (Roma centro)

Contacts

Opening times

Villa Altieri is the institutional headquarters of the Metropolitan City of Rome.

Monday to Thursday from 9.00 to 19.00
Friday from 9.00 to 17.00

For appointments contact telephone number 06 67668093
Write to villaaltieriufficiogestione@cittametropolitanaroma.it

Description

Villa Altieri was built at the end of the 17th century when Paluzzo Altieri, nephew of Pope Clement X, most probably commissioned architect Giovanni Antonio De Rossi to transform a large rustic farmhouse into a residence. The Province of Rome acquired Villa Altieri in 1975, after a series of changes of ownership of the building, once a women's recluse, then a nunnery and a school.
Restored in 2010, it houses the Institutional Library and Historical Archives of the Metropolitan City of Rome, the Altieri museum area and archaeological collection, the Pio Rajna Study Centre for Literary, Linguistic and Philological Research, with the Dante Library, as well as exhibition spaces.

See also

Culture and leisure › Cultural institutions › Libraries
Culture and leisure › Cultural institutions › Houses of culture
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