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The
Hotel Forum Rome - Luxury Quality Accomodation
Rome Italy
The
E.U.R. Project was initiated in the 1920's -
financed and inspired by the fascist Mussolini
Government of the period the project was never
completed - the second world war and summary
execution of Mussolini put a stop to his plans.
Nevertheless, E.U.R. remains one of the most
fascinating areas of Rome and its' surreal architecture
has inspired many modern artists including Di
Chirico many of whose paintings were inspired
by this surreal area of Rome. This particular
building the Palazzo della Civilita or il Colosseo
Quadrato (square collosseum) as it is popularly
known was the work of Guerrini. Commissioned
and completed in the early thirties The architectural
style is technically known as "bombastic
modernism" but in everyday language it
is fascist...
Indeed EU.R. is full of fascist inspired architecture
with the Palazzo della Civilita being one of
the f most famous buildings in E.U.R and Rome.
Recently il Colosseo Quadrato was used by a
major sports company for a TV commercial which
outraged Rome's cultural minister and benefactor
of the arts. Now unused the building is a relic
to a less than illustrious past and it is almost
impossible to find any books on fascist architecture
from this period.
Did
you know? Like many of the government
buildings in E.U.R. it was never used and lies
empty to this date.
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