The Casino dell'Aurora Pallavicini, a rarely seen seventeenth-century palazzo in Rome complete with a ceiling painted by Guido Reni, is open exceptionally on 14-16 and 18 May, when Sotheby's sells eighteenth-century furniture and decorative arts there--its first sale in the city. (+39 06 699 417 91).
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