Palazzo Wedekind

Roma Capitale records that the palace was built from the second half of the 1600s and owes its present appearance to the nineteenth-century restorations of Pietro Camporese and Giovanni Battista Giovenale, commissioned first by Gregory XVI and then by the Wedekind family. It was the papal postal office, then briefly the Education Ministry of the Kingdom of Italy; the banker Karl Wedekind bought it in 1879; it passed to INPS in 1925; it was the official seat of the Fascist Party from 1943 to the liberation of Rome, and later the home of the newspaper Il Tempo. Inside are the Sala Giovenale, with decorated ceilings and Renaissance-inspired mosaic floors designed by Giovenale in 1881, a second salone with a seventeenth-century tapestry from the Sciarra Collection, and a collection of about ninety twentieth-century works.