Pamphilj Palace (Albano)

Pamphilj Palace
Palazzo Pamphilj
View of the side of the building from the side of Via San Gaspare del Bufalo (June 2020).
General information
Status	Abandoned, in urgent need of renovation and restoration
Architectural style	Rococo
Town or city	Albano Laziale, Lazio
Country	Italy
Year(s) built	1708-1717
Technical details
Floor count	4
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Filippo Leti, Simone Costanzi, Carlo Stefano Fontana
Main contractor	Benedetto Pamphilj

Palazzo Pamphilj (or del Collegio Nazareno) is a historical palace in the city of Albano Laziale, in the province of Rome, in the Roman Castles area.

The palace was built between 1708 and 1717 by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj to replace some country houses dating back to the second half of the 17th century located at the top of the trident of Albano, a new urban expansion of the city conceived in the mid-17th century by Cardinal Fabrizio Savelli, commendatory abbot of the church of San Paolo. The palace became the property of the Piarist fathers of Rome's Nazarene College in 1764. It was used as a summer residence for the college's students until 1944, when it was requisitioned for use as a shelter for 52 war-displaced families.

It is currently a private property and is in total disrepair and neglect, despite being cited as an illustrative example of a patrician building in the Alban Hills and an 18th-century reconstruction site in a detailed study by Marco Silvestri and Enzo D'Ambrosio for the Accademia degli Incolti in 1988.^[1]