Located within one of Rome's most beautiful buildings, the 16th-century Palazzo Capodiferro, the Spada Gallery houses the important collection of Baroque painting created during the 17th century by Cardinals Bernardino and Fabrizio Spada. The fineness of its art collection, which is still presented in overlapping rows as in a 17th-century picture gallery, gives this place a unique charm, accentuated by its characteristic dimension as a precious family collection.
At the conclusion of the first-floor museum tour is a visit to the Secret Garden, which preserves the most spectacular Baroque artifice in Rome: the illusionistic Colonnade (or Perspective) created in 1653 by Francesco Borromini for Cardinal Bernardino Spada.