GALLERIA COLONNA | 2 hrs tour
The Colonna family
A special visit will open the doors of Galleria Colonna, an authentic jewel of the Roman Baroque commissioned in the mid-1600’s by Cardinal Girolamo I Colonna and the grandson Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna. Here in the center of Rome, time seems to stop. Luxury and marvel take the visitors to old times. Inaugurated by the son of Lorenzo Onofrio, Filippo II, in the year 1700, in addition to housing a valuable collection of paintings and a sumptuous interior decoration, is the only accessible part of the family palace that gave birth to pope Martin V. The splendid frescoes and the collection of paintings from the 16th century to the 18th century, make this place a rare example of artistic and historical continuity hidden in the center of Rome.
GALLERIA DORIA PAMPHILJ | 2 hrs tour
The Doria Pamphilj family
Explore the Gallery, the exhibition space in the heart of Palazzo Doria Pamphilj. Here, in the four wings looking onto the internal courtyard with its splendid renaissance arches, as well as the two large adjoining halls, the Aldobrandini Room and the Primitives Roon, is where the major part of the masterpieces of the Doria Pamphilj family’s private art collection is housed. Built on the original nucleus of the residence of cardinal Fazio Santoro, dating back to the start of the 16th century, the gallery is the part of the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj behind which lies the most interesting and oldest history, made up of nobility, politics and unions between some of the most important Italian noble families: from the Della Rovere to the Aldobrandini, from the Pamphilj to the Doria and the Doria Pamphilj.