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Palazzo dei Conservatori VISITORS’ CHECKLIST

The Palazzo dei Conservatori was the seat of the city’s Practical Information
magistrates during the late Middle Ages. Its frescoed halls Musei Capitolini,
are still used occasionally for political meetings and the Piazza del Campidoglio.
Map 3 A5. Tel 06 06 08.
ground floor houses the municipal registry office. While ∑ museicapitolini.org
much of the palazzo is given over to sculpture, including Open 9:30am–7:30pm daily.
fragments of a huge sculpture of Constantine, the art Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec. &
galleries on the second floor hold works by Veronese, Entrance ticket is valid for both
museums. 8 9 7 - =
Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Van Dyck and Titian.
Transport
St John the Baptist @ 40, 63, 70, 81, 87 and
Caravaggio’s sensual portrait (1595–6) many other routes through
of the young saint caressing a sheep Piazza Venezia.
is a highly unorthodox image of
Christ’s forerunner.
The Rape of the
Sabine Women
Pietro da Cortona glamorized
the mass abduction of Sabine
women by the Romans in
this painting of 1629.

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30 32
To temporary
27 29 exhibition space
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28A 33 18 Portico of
26 Marcus Aurelius
Second 20a
floor art 25
gallery 24 20
19 17
22b
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21b
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21a 21
22c
22d Medusa
This bust by
15 Bernini of the
4 23 Courtyard 14 mythological
11 13 Medusa is in
7 12 Room 8.
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Main First floor
entrance 8
Tickets Spinario
This is a charming
Key to Floorplan Key to Floorplan bronze sculpture from
the 1st century BC of a
Ground floor Exhibition space boy trying to remove a
First floor Non-exhibition space thorn from his foot.

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