Location Rome
Italy | Owner Vatican City | |
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Architects Giacomo della Porta, Ferdinando Fuga Similar Santissime Stimmate di San Fr, Circus Flaminius, Palazzo dei Convertendi, Pigna, Temple of Peace - Rome | ||
The Palace of the Vicariate or Palace of Maffei Marescotti (Italian: Palazzo Maffei Marescotti or Palazzo del Vicariato) is the name given to a religious building in Rome, Italy.
Is an ancient palace, originally a nobiliar palace, located in the Rione Pigna, on the corner of Via dei Cestari and Via della Pigna, next to the Church of the Holy Stigmata of St. Francis.
The palace was designed in 1580 by Giacomo Della Porta on behalf of Cardinal Marcantonio Maffei, which involved the demolition of some houses of families, who were in the Piazza della Pigna in front of the building that had been the family of Stefano Porcari. Death Cardinal Maffei reached in 1583 and the unfinished building began a long series of changes of ownership and different uses, whose only constant was to keep it under control of the Vatican.