Farnesina Palace - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Virtual Tour 360

The Farnesina Palace, often called simply Farnesina, is a public administration building, seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic. It is located between Monte Mario and the Tiber in the Foro Italico area in Rome.

The term "Farnesina" is often used as a metonym to indicate the ministry located there.

The building was begun in 1937 by the architects Enrico Del Debbio, Arnaldo Foschini and Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo, after the various phases of a competition which envisaged various locations for the building, the last of which by the will of high places and despite the contrary opinion some architects placed it at the very north end of the Foro Italico.

In fact, the complex was supposed to be the new Palazzo del Littorio, headquarters of the National Fascist Party, but already in 1940 the intended use had been changed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The works were interrupted in 1943 and resumed after the war (1946).

The building houses the Farnesina Collection is a collection of 20th century Italian works of art curated by Maurizio Calvesi until 2013, it contains the most representative expressions of the Italian 20th century visual arts.

The paintings, sculptures, installations and mosaics are distributed, in the large spaces of the Farnesina building, along the long route formed by corridors, meeting rooms and representative rooms of the Ministry.

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