The Sala del Mappamondo
The balcony Mussolini spoke from.
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No: the Vittoriano is the vast white marble monument on the square, while the palace is the red-brick building to its left โ the two are often confused.
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Rome's first great Renaissance palace โ and the most famous balcony in modern Italian history: Palazzo Venezia was built in 1455 for Cardinal Pietro Barbo, later Pope Paul II, from stone stripped out of the Colosseum, and became the Venetian and then Austrian embassy in Rome, from which its name comes. In the twentieth century it became Mussolini's headquarters: from the balcony of the Sala del Mappamondo above the square he addressed the crowds, and from it he declared war in 1940 โ the balcony is still there, seen from the square and entered on the ticket, and it is among the heaviest details in Rome. The museum shows decorative arts, sculpture, ceramics and medieval and Renaissance painting, and its finest feature is the rooms themselves with their timber ceilings, together with the inner garden, the viridarium, with its fountain and trees โ a silent oasis metres from Rome's busiest square.
The balcony Mussolini spoke from.
An inner garden metres from the crush.
Via del Plebiscito 118, Rome
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