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Lateran Palace
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ancient palace in Rome
Key facts
- Location
- Saint John's Square in Lateran on the Caelian Hill , Rome , Italy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Properties of the Holy See
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Rome
- Owned by
- Properties of the Holy See
- Image
- Western facade Palazzo del Laterano 2006-09-07.jpg
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- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- Commons category
- Lateran Palace
- architect
- Domenico Fontana
- Commons Institution page
- Lateran Palace
- described at URL
- dati.beniculturali.it/iccd/schede/resource/CulturalInstituteOrSite/S015630_Palazzo_Lateranense
- name
- palais de Latran
- native label
- Palazzo del Laterano
- P8168
- Claas
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Apostolic Palace of the Lateran (Latin: Palatium Apostolicum Lateranense), informally the Lateran Palace (Latin: Palatium Lateranense; Italian: Palazzo del Laterano), is an ancient palace of the Roman Empire and later the main papal residence in Rome.
Located on Saint John's Square in Lateran on the Caelian Hill, the palace is adjacent to the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, the cathedral church of Rome. The wealthy Lateran (Laterani) family held the palace estate during the Roman Empire, and the estate eventually came into the hands of the Emperor Constantine the Great who gifted it to Pope Miltiades who was residing at the Basilica of Santa Pudenziana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lateran Palace” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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