The Quirinal Palace on Rome's Quirinal Hill was built in 1583 as a papal summer residence for Pope Gregory XIII. The infobox lists Domenico Fontana and Carlo Maderno. The text names Ottaviano Mascherino for the original design, Fontana for the facade, and Maderno with Francesco Borromini for the bell tower.
The article names no style and no materials. The palace covers about 110,500 square meters (1.19 million sq ft), has 1,200 rooms and sits beside 4 hectares (about 10 acres) of gardens. The project was not finished before the Pope died in 1585, and Paul V commissioned completion of the main building after 1605.
Napoleon chose it as his imperial residence but never stayed there. Conclaves met in it in 1823, 1829, 1831 and 1846. It became the royal residence in 1871 and the presidential residence after the monarchy ended in 1946. The article gives no visiting hours or ticket details.
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