Quirinal Palace
You’re at the Quirinal Palace—Palazzo del Quirinale, sitting on the Quirinal Hill, the highest of Rome’s seven hills. This is the kind of place that’s worked as a political “switchboard”: it has served as the residence for thirty popes, four kings of Italy, and twelve presidents of the Italian Republic. The story goes back well before the palace. Ancient Romans used this site for temples—one connection is the hill’s name, linked to Quirinus—and later, during the reign of Constantine the Great, the last complex of Roman baths was built here. Then the building you see today takes shape under Pope Gregory XIII, who built the papal residence here in 1583. Even Napoleon tried to make it his own. He selected the palace as his imperial residence, but he never stayed there after the French defeat in 1814, followed by the European Restoration. …
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