Rome: G20 leaders to meet later this week Romethe historical surroundings of EUR, Benito. a neighborhood created by mussolini To glorify his fascist rule and its relations with ancient Rome.
Rome, the summit of the world’s major economies, will be far from the city center, home to the Colosseum and the Pantheon, where tourists, historic buildings and small streets are a nightmare for safety and accessibility.
Instead, leaders would gather in a futuristic convention center known as “nuvola” (cloud), a suspended structure inside a glass and steel box, a southern suburb with more subtly polished boulevards and with its own unique charm.
EUR, which stands for Esposizione Universale Romana, or Rome World ExpoIt was conceived in the 1930s as a showcase of modernist architecture and as the home of the 1942 edition of the World Expo.
This event, which would have coincided with the 20th anniversary of the fascist regime, never happened because of World War II. The conflict also forced Mussolini’s architects to abandon the euro halfway.
Situated on the southern outskirts of Rome, between the historic center and the seaside suburb of Ostia, the EUR is characterized by monumental buildings in white marble and travertine stone, typical of the fascist era.
Its most famous landmark is the so-called Square Colosseum, a white cube with arches originally meant to host the Palace of Italian Civilization, and now the headquarters of the Italian fashion house Fendi.
Around it, the building has an inscription taken from a 1935 Mussolini speech that celebrates Italians as “poets, artists, heroes, saints, thinkers, scientists, navigators and people of transmigrants”.
Fascist propaganda is also displayed in the Palazzo Uffi, which at its entrance boasts a huge bas-relief of the history of Rome that begins romulus and ends with Remus and Mussolini on horseback, his right hand raised in a fascist salute.
Today, the EUR is a residential and commercial area that hosts the headquarters of the ENI Energy Group and several other public and private institutions, as well as museums, concert halls, and an artificial lake popular with locals in the summer.
But in the years immediately following the war, it looked like a ghost town, with abandoned buildings occupied by refugees.
They were completed in the 1950s and 1960s when Roman authorities decided to turn the area into a city-side business district that became a model for London’s Docklands and La Defense in Paris.
Nuvola, which was recently used as a coronavirus vaccination centre, added a flavor of contemporary architecture to its modernist surroundings when it was inaugurated in 2016, after years of delays and cost overruns .
It was designed by Italian architect couple massimiliano And Doriana Fuxaso. The former is one of the stalwarts of contemporary Italian architecture, with projects including Shenzhen Bao’an Airport in China and Ferrari’s ultra-modern headquarters.
Rome, the summit of the world’s major economies, will be far from the city center, home to the Colosseum and the Pantheon, where tourists, historic buildings and small streets are a nightmare for safety and accessibility.
Instead, leaders would gather in a futuristic convention center known as “nuvola” (cloud), a suspended structure inside a glass and steel box, a southern suburb with more subtly polished boulevards and with its own unique charm.
EUR, which stands for Esposizione Universale Romana, or Rome World ExpoIt was conceived in the 1930s as a showcase of modernist architecture and as the home of the 1942 edition of the World Expo.
This event, which would have coincided with the 20th anniversary of the fascist regime, never happened because of World War II. The conflict also forced Mussolini’s architects to abandon the euro halfway.
Situated on the southern outskirts of Rome, between the historic center and the seaside suburb of Ostia, the EUR is characterized by monumental buildings in white marble and travertine stone, typical of the fascist era.
Its most famous landmark is the so-called Square Colosseum, a white cube with arches originally meant to host the Palace of Italian Civilization, and now the headquarters of the Italian fashion house Fendi.
Around it, the building has an inscription taken from a 1935 Mussolini speech that celebrates Italians as “poets, artists, heroes, saints, thinkers, scientists, navigators and people of transmigrants”.
Fascist propaganda is also displayed in the Palazzo Uffi, which at its entrance boasts a huge bas-relief of the history of Rome that begins romulus and ends with Remus and Mussolini on horseback, his right hand raised in a fascist salute.
Today, the EUR is a residential and commercial area that hosts the headquarters of the ENI Energy Group and several other public and private institutions, as well as museums, concert halls, and an artificial lake popular with locals in the summer.
But in the years immediately following the war, it looked like a ghost town, with abandoned buildings occupied by refugees.
They were completed in the 1950s and 1960s when Roman authorities decided to turn the area into a city-side business district that became a model for London’s Docklands and La Defense in Paris.
Nuvola, which was recently used as a coronavirus vaccination centre, added a flavor of contemporary architecture to its modernist surroundings when it was inaugurated in 2016, after years of delays and cost overruns .
It was designed by Italian architect couple massimiliano And Doriana Fuxaso. The former is one of the stalwarts of contemporary Italian architecture, with projects including Shenzhen Bao’an Airport in China and Ferrari’s ultra-modern headquarters.
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