Showing posts with label Mussolini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mussolini. Show all posts
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Remembering Giacomo Matteotti, and the Early Days of Italian Fascism

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  One of Rome's least prominent--and probably least visited--memorials is located on the Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia, just steps from...
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Monday, September 11, 2023

A statue of Carabinieri leads to the question: What was the role of this national armed force under Fascism?

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  La pattuglia nella tempesta. One of the rabbit holes we went down this year started on the day we flew into Rome and wandered into the par...
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Thursday, June 8, 2023

Ostia's Garbatella - 1926 public housing and a WWII bomb shelter

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Ostia, a town along the Mediterranean Sea not far from Rome - the new, not the ancient Ostia - is partly a creation of the Fascists. It was ...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Jewish Catacombs under Villa Torlonia - part of the you-can't-go-there-anyway series

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In the you-can't-go-there-anyway series, we explore - virtually - one set of Jewish catacombs under Rome. Yes, Jewish catacombs, which t...
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Thursday, September 16, 2021

Gaetano Vinaccia's Glorious Tower

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  This corner tower, a few blocks north of the Vatican at the angle formed by via Trionfale and via Tommaso Campanella, is surely among Rome...
Monday, June 14, 2021

The Mausoleum of Augustus--You CAN go there, if you can get a ticket

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  What Emperor Augustus's tomb looked like in ancient Rome (image by 3D Warehouse). Larry Litman at entrance to the Mausoleum  of August...
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