Eur - Rome and Mussolini
just posted an email to britarch re EUR in Rome which went something along the following lines:
If you are going to Rome and have a spare day (?) go to EUR - its a suburb built by order of Mussolini in 1939 for some big exhibition - architecture is, of course propaganda in stone, but provides a quite elegant modernist version of classical.
Couple of wonderful and empty museums there (including Museo Della Civiltà Romana and makes a really good day out! Interesting thing though is how this elegant architecture with its lovely avenues and squares, a model of townplanning, was built by a regime so detestable.
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kevin flude
If you are going to Rome and have a spare day (?) go to EUR - its a suburb built by order of Mussolini in 1939 for some big exhibition - architecture is, of course propaganda in stone, but provides a quite elegant modernist version of classical.
Couple of wonderful and empty museums there (including Museo Della Civiltà Romana and makes a really good day out! Interesting thing though is how this elegant architecture with its lovely avenues and squares, a model of townplanning, was built by a regime so detestable.
More on EUR from photo.net
kevin flude
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