Embassy of Italy, London

The Italian Embassy in London is the headquarters of the diplomatic missions of Italy in the United Kingdom.

Location

The Embassy is located on Grosvenor Square in Mayfair, in the City of Westminster, London. Although situated in Grosvenor Square, there is the main entrance to the embassy on Three Kings Yard, a branching off from the Davies Street impasse. Some organizational units of the message are swapped: the Consular Section is located in Farringdon, the culture department at Belgrave Square, the Defense Attaché is also housed with his department in Belgravia, the Departments of Finance and Trade are settled in the City of London.

History

The Savoy, who provided the kings of Italy in 1861, mid-16th century for the first time sent diplomatic representatives to London. From their embassy today's Italian embassy was.

1625 was the property where today, among other things, the Italian Embassy is in the possession of the businessman Hugh Audley. After the death of his wife, Mary Davies, who had married her second husband Sir Thomas Grosvenor, the estate went to her son Sir Richard Grosvenor, who started from 1721 with the installation of a place and several buildings, with the intention of one of the most exclusive areas of London to create. The east side of Grosvenor Square, where today the message was originally designed by the Scottish architect Colen Campbell in the style of the Palladian style, the achievement did not materialize. From 1725 to 1735 then came under John Simmons, the then seven buildings on the east side, including the house number 4 ( the message ) as the time central building. Since no buyer could be found, was organized in 1739 a lottery which the Earl of Effingham, Colonel Francis Howard won. Later, there were several changes of ownership and conversions. Among the famous residents of the house belonged from 1751 to 1782, the Prime Minister Charles Watson- Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, then his nephew William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, the significant sums put in the next 50 years in the development of the house. His descendants renovated the property in 1872 and 1902, where it was further expanded in the direction of Three Kings Yard. In this cultivation is now home to the chancellery. In 1932, the estate of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, which still left it in the same year for 200 years by the Italian State in usufruct.

The neighboring buildings were remodeled from 1936. In the south adjacent building was located from 1938 to 1961, the American Embassy, which then moved to another building in Grosvenor Square, from 1961 to 2013 then part of the Canadian High Commission.