Palazzo Taverna, Rome, Renaissance palace in Monte Giordano district, Rome, Italy

Palazzo Taverna is a Renaissance palace in the Monte Giordano district of Rome featuring grand halls and a central courtyard with four marble basins and a fountain. The residence also has gardens with a tower.

Cardinal Giordano Orsini built the palace on the site of his castle on Monte Giordano. In 1688 it passed to the Gabrielli family, who hosted Bonaparte relatives including Empress Eugénie. The Taverna counts acquired it in 1888. It housed the French Embassy to the Holy See until 1951, when Ambassador Wladimir d'Ormesson moved it to Villa Paolina.

The name Monte Giordano, where the palace stands, is tied to the Orsini family, who built their castle here. Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este rented the palace and hosted the poet Torquato Tasso as a guest. In the 19th century the Baccelli family lived here, and Augusto and Giovanni Baccelli may have been born in the building.

The palace stands on Via di Monte Giordano in the Ponte rione, a short walk from Piazza Navona. The entrance courtyard, with its four marble basins around Antonio Casoni's central fountain, is the reference point for finding the halls and the garden with its tower and loggia. The building now houses the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability, so interior access depends on the institute's activities.

The palace now houses the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability (EIIS), not a noble family. Its garden tower and the portico and loggia beside it are easy to miss from Via di Monte Giordano, since the entrance gives onto the courtyard rather than the grounds.