Palazzo Pamphilj Palazzo Pamphilj Palazzo Pamphilj, also spelled Palazzo Pamphili, is a palace facing onto the Piazza Navona in Rome. It was built between 1644 and 1650. Since 1920 the palace has housed the Brazilian Embassy in Italy, and in October 1960 it became the property of the Federative Republic of Brazil in a purchase negotiation led by Ambassador Hugo Gouthier de Oliveira Gondim. In 1644, Cardinal Giambattista Pamphilj of the powerful Pamphilj family, who already owned a palace between the Piazza Navona and the Via Pasquino, became Pope Innocent X. With this election came the desire for a larger more magnificent
Piazza Armerina slightly later age of Frederick II) with colonists coming from northern Italy (then collectively called "Lombardy"), especially from Monferrato and Piacenza. The most common surnames in Piazza Armerina and their frequencies as of 2014: <BR> Piazza Armerina Piazza Armerina (Gallo-Italic of Sicily: "Ciazza"; Sicilian: "Chiazza") is a "comune" in the province of Enna of the autonomous island region of Sicily, southern Italy. The city of Piazza (as it was called before 1862) developed during the Norman domination in Sicily (11th century), when Lombards settled the central and eastern part of Sicily. But the area had been inhabited since prehistoric times.