Palazzo Spada in Rome was designed by Bartolomeo Baronino of Casale Monferrato for Cardinal Girolamo Capodiferro, who commissioned it in 1540. Giulio Mazzoni and a team did the stucco work. Cardinal Bernardino Spada bought it in 1632, and Francesco Borromini made 17th-century modifications. The page has no infobox.
The article describes Mannerist stucco and bas-relief decoration on the front and courtyard facades, with sculptures, fruit and flower swags and grotesques, and a Baroque courtyard by Borromini. Its forced-perspective gallery is described as 121 feet (37 m) long, though the article's parenthetical says it is actually 26 feet (8 m).
The colossal statue of Pompey the Great was discovered in 1552. The Italian State bought the palace in 1927. It houses the Galleria Spada and the Italian Council of State. The article gives no hours.
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