Palazzo Valentini - Palace in Rome, not far from Piazza Venezia. Since 1873 it belongs to the city administration.

Palazzo was built on the orders of Cardinal Michele Bonelli, nephew of Pope Pius V, who in 1585 acquired the Giacomo Boncompagni Palace, standing on the Piazza dei Santi Apostoli. Today Palazzo Valentini is separated from this area Via Quattro Novembre. The Cardinal was also the owner of the vast land of the palazzo on the site which once housed the Forum of Trajan and August. In those years, the land experienced a stage of development and urbanization - that's when the area was established Alessandrino (Cardinal came from the province of Alessandria). In 1920-1930-ies the quarter was demolished to create Via dei Fori Imperiali.

Trapetseevidnoe shape Palazzo Valentini was designed by architect Domenico Paganella and built in just three years, thanks to an impressive investment of funds by the Cardinal. In the 17th century, the building has undergone a number of modifications and extensions, and even was partially destroyed and rebuilt by the Francesco Peparelli for the new owner, Cardinal Renato Imperiali, which marked the beginning of a library of 24 thousand volumes. In the early 18th-century building in a while he worked a private theater, which were outstanding musicians - Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Arcangelo Corelli, and others.

In 1827, the Prussian banker, bought the palazzo Vincenzo Valentini, whose name the building is today. The palace was once again extended and rebuilt a few, and its new owner has placed here a collection of paintings and an archaeological collection (do not forget the impressive library). Today in the Palazzo Valentini can see a statue of Odysseus works Hugo Attard and "Aeneas and Anchises" and "Europe" Sandro Chia.

During recent archaeological excavations beneath the foundations of the palazzo was discovered by a small thermal complex, probably a large part of the former term is found in the early 20th century during the construction of the adjacent Palazzo della Assikuratsoni di Venezia. Ruins of a term open to inspection.