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Palazzo Altemps
Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 46, 00186 Rome, Italy Phone: +39 06 3996 7700About
The Palazzo Altemps is a 15th century palace that was restored by the Italian Government and opened to the public in 1997. The Boncampani Ludovisi collection of marble statues once decorated the villa of Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi on the Quirinale and is now part of this museum's collection. The state took about 100 of the original 450 sculptures when the villa was torn down at the end of the 19th century. Cardinal Markus Sitticus Altemps (of German origin) bought the palace in 1568 and placed his collection of ancient sculptures here. The courtyard design was due to this Cardinal.
