Galleria Spada
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- Best time to go
- Year-round
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A gallery in a frescoed baroque palace near Campo de' Fiori preserving the art collection of Cardinal Bernardino Spada. Four richly hung rooms display seventeenth-century paintings arranged in the dense manner of a period picture gallery. The palace is famous for a forced-perspective colonnade designed by Francesco Borromini, which appears far longer than its actual few metres. A single small statue at its end completes the optical illusion. The intimate scale and original hang make it one of Rome's most atmospheric aristocratic galleries.
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