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Foro Italico is a sports complex in Rome, Italy, on the slopes of Monte Mario.It was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini (literally Mussolini's Forum) under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti.
February 11: Pius XI. receives Mussolini in Vatican for the third anniversary of the Lateran treaty; the visit signs the rapprochement of Church and fascism, after the contrasts about the Azione Cattolica. March 29: Filippo Turati dies in Paris. April 9: The FIAT 508 Balilla, the first Italian people's car, is presented at the Milan Auto Show.
The Lungotevere lies in the area of the Foro Italico (formerly Foro Mussolini) and hosts the Foresteria Nord, an edifice designed by Costantino Costantini and built in 1933 in line with the Foresteria Sud; they were both conceived during the realisation of the Foro Italico; the two buildings served as guest quarters.
Fascist architecture in the form of Rationalism with elements of classical Roman architecture was born under dictator Benito Mussolini's rule of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Mussolini invested in public construction projects in order to foster economic development, to gain popular support and modernize the country.
Mussolini's prestige as a hero aviator in the manner of Charles Lindbergh was especially important, as for Italian Fascism the aeroplane embodied qualities such as dynamism, energy, and courage. [14] Mussolini himself oversaw the photographs that could appear and rejected some, such as because he was not sufficiently prominent in a group. [15]
The Lungotevere is in the area of the Foro Italico, formerly Foro Mussolini. It includes the Foresteria Sud, a building designed between 1929 and 1932 by Enrico Del Debbio, who also modified it between 1936 and 1937 by adding a second floor entirely covered with white Carrara marble. The edifice became the seat of the CIVIS (the association of ...
In 1927, he was commissioned the new Foro Mussolini, a sport complex now known as Foro Italico (finished in 1960), including the Stadio dei Marmi (1928) and the Palazzo della Farnesina, the current seat of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also designed the Stadio del Nuoto ("Swimming Stadium", 1956). He died in Rome in 1973.
Years later, and after Mussolini was forced from power by the King in 1943 only to be rescued by German forces, the Italian Social Republic founded by Mussolini and the fascists did incorporate the fasces on the state's war flag, which was a variant of the Italian tricolour national flag.