Wednesday, March 22, 2017

ARMY PALACE

PALAZZO ESERCITO
1875/89 as MINISTRY OF WAR
Today it is the headquarters of the ARMY STAFF AND THE GENERAL SECRETARIAT OF DEFENSE
Large MILITARY CENTRAL LIBRARY with books mainly of military subjects
More than 120,000 volumes and 1,000 journals both Italian and foreign as well as about 1,200 antique books
In the basement is partially preserved the BUNKER where on the night between 8 and 9 September 1943 general Pietro Badoglio and members of the Italian royal family came from the nearby Palazzo del Quirinale to escape the chaos that followed the armistice between the Italian government and the Allied Forces
On the other side of Via XX Settembre there are four palaces built during the same period:
PALAZZO BOURBON 1884 at No. 3 and PALAZZO CALABRESI 1882 at No. 5 by Gaetano Koch (1849/1910)
PALAZZO BARACCHINI 1886 at No. 8 and PALAZZO CAPRARA 1884 at No. 11 by Giulio Podesti (1857/1909)

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