The Scuderie del Quirinale (The Quirinal Stables, also called Papal Stables) were built in ten years, from 1722 to 1732 . The Scuderie, together with Palazzo del Quirinale (The Quirinal Palace – official residence of the President of the Italian Republic) and Palazzo della Consulta (The Constitutional Court – originally a villa built upon the ruins of the Baths of Constantine and adapted by pope Sixtus V as a civil and criminal court), make up a stunning urban space. At the center of the spacious piazza, between these three buildings, stands an obelisk – moved from the nearby Mausoleum of Augustus in the eighteenth century – atop a fountain with the famous statues of the Dioscuri (the two gigantic Roman marble “Horse Tamers”, Castor and Pollux).
AN OPEN VISIT TO QUIRINALE
