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Littorio was the lead ship of her class of battleship; she served in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during World War II. She was named after the Lictor (" Littorio " in Italian), in ancient times the bearer of the Roman fasces , which was adopted as the symbol of Italian Fascism .
The Littorio class, also known as the Vittorio Veneto class, [Note 1] was a class of battleship of the Regia Marina, the Italian navy. The class was composed of four ships— Littorio , Vittorio Veneto , Roma , and Impero —but only the first three ships of the class were completed.
The first two ships entered service in August 1940, shortly after Italy joined World War II. Littorio was badly damaged in the November 1940 raid on Taranto, and repairs lasted until March 1941. Vittorio Veneto was undamaged, and later that month took part in the Battle of Cape Spartivento.
Littorio Circuit, motor racing circuit around the Littorio airfield, used in the 1930s; Arena Garibaldi – Stadio Romeo Anconetani, stadium in Pisa, Italy, known as Campo Littorio between 1931 and 1949; Stadio Franco Ossola, stadium in Varese, Italy, known as Stadio del Littorio between 1925 and 1950
Roma, named after two previous ships and the city of Rome, [N 1] was the third Littorio-class battleship of Italy's Regia Marina (Royal Navy). The construction of both Roma and her sister ship Impero was due to rising tensions around the world and the navy's fear that only two Littorios, even in company with older pre-First World War battleships, would not be enough to counter the British and ...
Latina (Italian: ⓘ) is the capital of the province of Latina, in the Lazio region, in Central Italy. As of 2024, the city ... named for the fascio littorio. The ...
The Stile Littorio therefore denotes an expression of state architecture that aimed to homogenize the various currents of architectural language in Italy in the twenties, merging monumentalism and classicism with rationalism in search of a unitary, connotative and recognizable national style, at the service of an image of the fascist state that ...
381/50 guns of Vittorio Veneto and Littorio. The Cannone da 381/50 Ansaldo M1934 was a 381-millimeter (15 in), 50-caliber naval gun designed and built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) by Gio. Ansaldo & C. in the 1930s. The gun served as the main armament of Italy's last battleships, the Littorio class.