Palazzo Maffei Marescotti is a vast palace, born as a noble palace, located in the Pigna district, on the corner between via dei Cestari and via della Pigna, adjacent to the Church of the Santissime Stimmate of San Francesco.
The palace was designed in 1580 by Giacomo Della Porta on behalf of Cardinal Marcantonio Maffei, demolishing for this purpose some family houses that overlooked Piazza della Pigna in front of the palace that had belonged to Stefano Porcari's family. Death overtook Cardinal Maffei in 1583 and for the unfinished palace a long series of changes of owners and uses began, the only constant of which was to keep it within the Vatican.
Still unfinished, it was bought in 1591 by the powerful sister of Sixtus V, Camilla Peretti. The property then passed to a Sannesio (Clemente Sannesio de Calutiis, marquis of Collelungo), to Cardinal Ludovisio in 1621, to Francesco II d'Este in 1668, to an Acciaiuoli in 1714, finally reaching the Marescottis in 1764, who held it until to 1865 by having the palace expanded by Ferdinando Fuga.
The commercial use of the property begins here. Purchased in 1865 by the Banca Romana di Tanlongo, it was purchased in 1906 directly by the Vatican, which made it the seat of the Vicariate of Rome, having the façade on Via dei Cestari completed in neo-Renaissance style by Antonio Sarti. After the Vicariate moved to the Palazzo di San Callisto (1964), the building hosts Catholic associations and the Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi, a great protagonist of confessional tourism.
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