Palazzo Piacentini, Government palazzo along Via Veneto, Rome, Italy
Palazzo Piacentini is a government building on Via Veneto in Rome, with a large facade decorated with bronze sculptures by Giovanni Prini. Inside, the office spaces are spread across multiple floors and today house a central ministry.
The building was completed in 1932 by architect Marcello Piacentini and was then called the Palazzo delle Corporazioni. It was built as part of a broader reorganization of the country's economic institutions at that time.
The building's decoration involved several artists: Mario Sironi, Antonio Maraini, Ercole Drei, Ferruccio Ferrazzi, who made tapestries, and Giovanni Prini, author of the bronze portal. Artworks and furnishings were budgeted at about 1.5 million lire, separate from the roughly 32 million lire spent on construction and furniture.
The building at Via Veneto 33 is a working ministry, so visits depend on institutional access rather than public opening hours. The bronze portal by Giovanni Prini marks the entrance on the street side. Do not confuse it with the Piacentini-designed Ministry of Justice on Via Arenula, a different building from 1913-1920.
The palace is often confused with the Palazzo Piacentini on Via Arenula, seat of the Ministry of Justice, built by Pio Piacentini between 1913 and 1920 in a late neo-Renaissance style. The two are different buildings by different architects.
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