FAO Headquarters

FAO Building
Palazzo FAO
General information
Location	Rome, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
Country	Italy
Construction started	1938
Completed	1952
Inaugurated	1952
Owner	Loaned to FAO by Italian State
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Vittorio Cafiero, Mario Ridolfi

The FAO Building (Italian: Palazzo FAO, literally "FAO Palace") is the international headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), located in the San Saba rione of Rome, Italy. Originally built under the Fascist government of Italy in the 1930s to be the seat of the Ministry of Italian Africa, the building was repurposed after World War II to be the headquarters of the then-new United Nations' agricultural agency, the FAO. The building is located the in one of the most scenic parts of Rome, southeast of the Aventine Hill, and overlooking the Baths of Caracalla and the Circus Maximus.