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(16 Nov 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, 7 November 2025
1. Tracking shot going down Great Hall which is 76 meters (250 feet) long
2. Wide shot of the hall with a fresco of the 1571 Battle of Lepanto showing the victory of Commander Marcantonio Colonna
3.Sculptures and chandeliers running down the side of the Great Hall

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, 10 November 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Trisha Thomas, Associated Press:
"We're here in the magnificent great gallery in the Colonna Palace in the center of Rome. This gallery is filled with over 270 works of art, sculptures, busts, glittering chandeliers and precious tapestries. This house-museum, as the Palazzo is known as, belongs to the noble Colonna family and Don Prospero Colonna still lives in one part of the palace with his family. Being one of the most exclusive places in Rome, they allow very few visitors in to see the works of art. Only on Friday mornings and on Saturday mornings, people can come in and see all these works. This palace was also a big part of history. One of the Colonna family members became Pope Martin V, and it was actually the papal residence for 10 years. Then in 1952, when they were filming Roman Holiday, they used this grand gallery for the last scene. We mostly remember in that film Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck going around Rome on a Vespa. In that scene, Audrey Hepburn as the princess holds a press conference for the foreign press here in this gallery with Gregory Peck as one of the journalists."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, 7 November 2025
5. Woman looking at Annibale Carracci’s famous painting “The Bean Eater”
6. Various of “The Bean Eater” and other paintings in the Room Of The Apotheosis Of Martin V
10. Close of mobile phone as visitor takes photo of “The Resurrection of Christ and members of the Colonna Family at the end of time” by Pietro Da Cortona
11. Mid of man looking at the Pietro Da Cortona painting and listening to art historian
12. Mid tilt of “The Resurrection of Christ and members of the Colonna Family at the end of time”
13. Wide of Hall of the Chapel with elaborate chandeliers, tapestries and paintings
14. Close of murano glass chandelier
15. Close of painting of Pope Martin V
16. Various of throne room with uniform on display in the Palazzo Colonna and a painting of Pope Martin V

21. ARCHIVE STILL - Hollywood actor Gregory Peck jokes with Belgian-born British actress Audrey Hepburn, co-star in the Paramount film "Roman Holiday" on the first day of the shooting of the film in Rome, Italy, June 25, 1952. (AP Photo/Remo Nassi; ID 5206251208)
STORYLINE:
Millions of tourists visit the Colosseum and Sistine Chapel each year, but only a tiny fraction of those masses manage to get inside the gilded halls of Rome’s most exclusive location: the Colonna Palace.

The private home-museum hides in plain sight, spread out in four wings over an entire block in the city center. Its owners cling to their cloistered ways, keeping the baroque palace’s paintings, sculptures, busts, tapestries and 76-meter (249-foot) Great Hall far from most prying eyes. Doors open to small groups – 10 people at a time, guided by art historians for a few hours on Friday and Saturday mornings.

“We cannot have mass tourism. It is not the wish,” Elisabetta Cecchini, a restorer at the palace, told The Associated Press, adding that the reason any visitors are allowed is because art dies in the absence of public appreciation. “However, it is not intended as a museum to be commodified.”










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