Italy · 15th century
Palazzo Altemps, formerly Palazzo Riario, is a historic building in Rome designed in the 15th century by Melozzo da Forlì. It stands in the Ponte district on Piazza Sant'Apollinare, a few dozen metres from Piazza Navona. It has been state property since 1982 and houses one of the four branches of the Museo Nazionale Romano.
Machine-translated from “Palazzo Altemps” on the Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palazzo Altemps ranks #1,044 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #75 of the 560 mapped in Italy. Founded c. 1450, it is older than 47% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 554 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 5,489 times in the last 60 days, more than 88% of the atlas. Wikidata records about 50,000 visitors in 2022. 65 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Rome, 1 km away. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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