Palazzo Venezia
Once the Venetian embassy, later Mussolini's office, with one of the twentieth century's most famous balconies โ a museum today.
Rome's largest junction and the knot where every central road meets: Via dei Fori Imperiali runs from here to the Colosseum, Via del Corso north to Piazza del Popolo, and the Trastevere road west. Lose your bearings anywhere in Rome and coming back to this square resets your mental map. It is dominated by the vast white marble Victor Emmanuel II monument, and beside it stands Palazzo Venezia, which gave the square its name โ a fifteenth-century building that served as the Venetian embassy and later as Mussolini's office, from whose balcony he made his famous speeches. It is now a museum of medieval and Renaissance art. The square itself is free and open, but it is a traffic hub, loud, and not a place to linger. Treat it as a crossing point โ and as one of Rome's finest sights after dark, when the monument is fully lit.
Once the Venetian embassy, later Mussolini's office, with one of the twentieth century's most famous balconies โ a museum today.
Three complete walking routes begin here: to the Colosseum, to Piazza del Popolo, and to Trastevere.
Piazza Venezia, Rome
No โ you will cross it several times anyway. Spend your time on the monument itself and its panoramic lift instead.
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