Piazza di Monte Citorio or Piazza Montecitorio is a piazza in Rome. It is named after the Monte Citorio, one of the minor
hills of Rome.
The piazza contains the
Obelisk of Montecitorio and the
Palazzo Montecitorio
Palazzo Montecitorio () is a palace in Rome and the seat of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament.
History
The palace's name derives from the slight hill on which it is built, which was claimed to be the ''Mons Ci ...
. The base of the
column of Antoninus Pius was also once sited here.
Gallery
File:Piazza di Monte Citorio, Rome, Italy-LCCN2001700966.jpg, Photochrom
Photochrom, Fotochrom, Photochrome or the Aäc process is a process of hand-colouring of photographs, hand-colouring photographs from a single black-and-white photographic negative, negative with subsequent photographic transfer onto Lithography, ...
image (1890s)
File:Montecitorio Panini.jpg, 'The Piazza di Monte Citorio'', painting by Panini (1747)
Monte Citorio, Piazza di
Rome R. III Colonna
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