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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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