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Scuderie del Quirinale - Il palazzo delle Scuderie del Quirinale. The Scuderie del Quirinale (Quirinal Stables, also called Papal Stables) was built over ten years, from 1722 to 1732 .

Scuderie del Quirinale - Il palazzo delle Scuderie del Quirinale

The Scuderie, together with the Palazzo del Quirinale (Quirinal Palace – official residence of the President of the Italian Republic) and the Palazzo della Consulta (Constitutional Court – originally a villa built upon the ruins of the Baths of Constantine and adapted by Sixtus V as a civil and criminal court), make up a stunning urban space.

At the center of the spacious piazza between these three buildings stands an obelisk – moved from nearby the Mausoleum of Augustus in the eighteenth century – atop a fountain and the famous statues of the Dioscuri (the two gigantic Roman marble “Horse Tamers”, Castor and Pollux). Ing_museo venice. Borghese + Barberini + Corsini + Spada Gallery - Official Site. Home — Museo di Capodimonte. Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Roma – Doria Pamphilj. Musei Capitolini. Musei Vaticani - Sito Ufficiale. Uffizi, Uffizi gallery, Florence.