The Colonna palace was built by Filippo I Colonna in 1620 as a quadrangular building adherent to the Sant'Andrea church that, at that time, was also the family tomb.
In 1661 the building was expanded by building a new wing with new boardrooms.
In the hall of weapons are war trophies taken from the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto, ancient weapons, and family portraits.
There are paintings by Italian and Spanish artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a portrait of Marcantonio Colonna, made by Scipione Pulzone, and one of Pope Martin V, which is believed to be a copy of that by Pisanello.
In the palace there is also a camp bed of Marcantonio Colonna.
Underneath, in the crypt, are buried the members of the Paliano branch of the Colonna family, and on the altar of the chapel is a copy of the "Resurrection of the Members of the Colonna House" by Pietro da Cortona. The palace is not open to the public because members of the Colonna family reside there.
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