Palazzo Wedekind

The Palazzo Wedekind is a major city palace in Rome.

The Palazzo Wedekind is centrally located on Piazza Colonna with the Column of Marcus Aurelius right next to Palazzo Chigi, seat of the Italian Prime Minister. Palazzo Wedekind are now the offices of the newspaper il tempo.

The Palazzo has a checkered history. It received its name, although in 1659 built for the Bolognese Ludovisi patrician family, until the 19th century.

Since 1814, he served the papal post of the Papal States.

Under Pope Gregory XVI. Palazzo was considerably altered. This test carried out by Pietro Camporese Younger conversion, designed by Giuseppe Valadier is art-historically significant because it twelve pillars were installed, which came from the ruins of Veii. He is the last great Roman Palazzo, were used in the ancient elements. The two pillars flanking the entrance, however, are from a later period. They date from the 1823 spent Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls.

1852, the Palazzo was purchased by the German - Italian businessman Charles Wedekind, who moved the seat of his banking house there. Under Charles Wedekind, the building was remodeled in the interior, designed by GB Juvenal.

From 1871, the building served the Italian Ministry of Education as a service headquarters and in September 1943, shortly as the headquarters of the Fascist Party.

The Palazzo Wedekind is now owned by the Italian Istituto Nazionale della social security institution Previdenza Sociale, who has rented the building to the newspaper il tempo 2015. For the time after both government and Parliament have shown interest in the Palazzo.