Lateran Palace

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noun

1. a palace in Rome used as the papal residence from the 4th century a.d. to the removal of the papal court to Avignon, rebuilt in 1586, and now a museum for classical and Christian antiques.

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In the Lateran Palace in 1929 Benito Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri set their names to the famed Treaty.

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The Pope reportedly added that he could take up residence in the Lateran Palace outside the Vatican, the nominal headquarters of Popes in their capacity as Bishops of Rome.

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At 8:52 the procession halted in the courtyard before the Lateran Palace.

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After mass he went next door, visited the Lateran Palace.

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Then his Holiness descended from the Throne, and being seated in his Procession Chair, was carry’d to the Lateran Palace.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von