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GetCOO | Palazzo Wedekind

Palazzo Wedekind

Palazzo Wedekind is a palazzo in Piazza Colonna in Rome, located next to the church of Santi Bartolomeo ed Alessandro dei Bergamaschi. It is notable as the historic offices of the daily paper Il Tempo. On a site occupied in antiquity by the Temple of Marcus Aurelius, the medieval buildings on the site were cleared for a structure erected by the Ludovisi (1659) that became the offices of the vicegerente of the vicariate of Rome. To house the general director of the postal service for the Papal States, moved here in 1814, the palazzo was completely rebuilt by Pope Gregory XVI to designs byGiuseppe Valadier carried out by Pietro Camporese the Younger.