Date of experience: April 2016 Ask SusanS3880 about National Museum of Palazzo Venezia Mussolini Commands Italy / Benito Mussolini delivers a speech from a balcony to an enormous crowd / Mussolini rides in a convertible in a motorcade through Rome / Huge crowds wave banners and celebrate Mussolini / Narrated The fascist leader Benito Mussolini used Palazzo Venezia as his residence, during his reign. But my favourite story of all is how Mussolini stood on the small balcony to address the Italians. Mussolini’s office was located in the Sala del Mappamondo in the palace throughout the 1930s, and the balcony off the room overlooked the square just below. One of those speeches was a declaration of the Italian Empire, on the 9. His office was Sala del Mappamondo and he used its balcony, overlooking the Piazza Venezia to deliver many of his most notable speeches to crowds gathered in the Piazza Venezia below. May 1936.
The plaza or square in this area is filled with outstanding buildings to tour.