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Restaurant Capricci Siciliani in Rome |
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 If late at night you find yourself wandering around the centre of Rome, looking for the right place to let yourself indulge in the pleasures that good food can give.... don't lose your head - look for Via di Panico.
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| The Palazzo Taverna of Monte Giordano |
MAGNIFICENT PALACE RISES IMPOSINGLY IN THE HEART OF ROME, ON A SMALL ARTIFICIAL HILL WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN FORMED BY THE WASTE OF THE NEARBY SMALL PORT ON THE RIVER TIBER..
The Palace belonged to the Orsini Family since 1286 but the Romans used to call "Mons Ursinorum" the small hill on which the enormous building was constructed. Even Dante Alighieri himself in his XVIII Canto of Hell remembers how, during the Jubilee of 13th century, the Pilgrims going to the Vatican, on one side they would have faced Castel Sant'Angelo "...and they go to St.Peter; on the other side they go towards the mount" referring in this case to the Orsini Mount. In the year 1328, the mount took the name of Mount Giordano, the name of Giordano Orsini, Roman Senator in 1341.
The very ancient Orsini Family added various wings to the building which around the year 1400 started to trasform the small turreted block house (redoubt) into a complex of elegant buildings, divided among the various families - the Earls of Pitigliano, the Dukes of Bracciano and the Signori of Marino. |
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