The historical Colonna palace today houses the town hall of Marino.
It is believed to have been designed in 1532 by architect Antonio da Sangallo transforming a former castle of the eleventh century.
The work continued until the seventeenth century.
In 1944 it was destroyed by bombing and was rebuilt in 1958 but there is no trace of the magnificence of the previous interior.
The palace was surrounded by "Giardinaccio", a park decorated with fountains and sculptures almost completely disappeared today.
A hunting lodge is preserved that was first inhabited by writer Alberto Moravia and then by the sculptor Umberto Mastroianni who died here in 1999.
The ground floor rooms are decorated with beautiful frescoes of classical taste, landscaped squares with fluvial and marine views.
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