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The palace featured in Roman Holiday

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Tapestry lounge of the Palazzo Brancaccio, a 19th century palace in Rome.

The Palazzo Brancaccio is where the movie Roman Holiday was filmed! While watching and seeing how ornate and brimming with cherubic angels* and filigrees and odd little sculptures and pretty things– the little horses and their riders on the table were what really made me think, “there’s no way they made all this for the movie!” so I got curious where it was filmed (this doesn’t usually ever happen with me while watching movies)–and it’s a real palace!

It also has a Hallway of Mirrors, .a tribute to the palace of Versailles!

Many locations look just as they do in the film, it’s maintained to this day, open for events like weddings (although I’d imagine it would be a very expensive wedding, you have to ask a year in advance…), but it’s really nice that people can go and take a look inside!

(The scene where Ann, Audrey’s character, kept twisting around in bed, craning her neck, always finding a different statue angel staring back down at her from whatever spot of the ceiling her eyes fell on was amusing, if stifling for her. I wasn’t expecting this movie to be funny!)