Palazzo

Palazzo is more broadly used in Italian than its English equivalent " Palace". It Italy, a palazzo is a grand building of some architectural ambition that is the headquarters of a family of some renown, or of an institution, or even, in modern times of what the English call "a block of flats."

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Palazzi with their own entries include:

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• Palazzo Barbarigo, Venice
• Palazzo Barberini, Rome
• Palazzo della Cancelleria, Rome
• Palazzo Ducale, Venice
• Palazzo Farnese, Rome
• Palazzo Foscari, Venice
• Palazzo Medici, Florence
• Palazzo Pamphilj, Rome
• Palazzo Piccolomini, Piacenza
• Palazzo Pitti, Florence
• Palazzo Rucellai, Florence
• Palazzo Salvadori, Trento
• Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
• Palazzo del Te, outside Mantua
• Palazzo del Vaticano, Vatican City, Rome

In Venice some palazzi are conventionally called Ca' ("casa"):

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• Ca' d'Oro
• Ca' Rezzonico

See also:

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• Palazzo Pubblico
• Palazzo della Signoria

Palazzo San Gervasio is a commune in the province of Potenza, in Basilicata, Italy.

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