The Palace of Italian Civilization, also known as the Palace of the Civilization of business or Square Colosseum is one of the euro symbol. Designed by architects Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Bruno La Padula and Mario Romano, the palace was built between 1938 and 1943, (opened November 30, 1940 although the works were still in progress).
The Square Colosseum , as you can imagine from which the nickname is unknown, commissioned by Benito Mussolini, was inspired by the most famous Coliseum, taking an architecture characterized by rows of arches has 6 horizontal rows of 9 strings each. A rumor has it that this choice is not random, but symbolizes the name (Benito, 6 letters) and last (Mussolini, 9 letters).
From the second half of 2012 will become the seat of the permanent exhibition "Made in Italy and Italian design. Also in the building will take its place with the Museum of the audiovisual one and a half devoted entirely to the local nightclub Italian. Work on upgrading the building began in 2008 and should be completed in 2012 at a total cost of 48.5 million euro (19.5 million DKK 29 million from the spa and Mibac).
The Palace of Italian Civilization has been imagined in a rhetoric, as a symbol of strength, challenge, fight - said Alemanno - now turns his way to express the Italians do not like power, but as creative, with a ' cultural offer future-oriented. "
In the words of Mayor Gianni Alemanno: "The Palace of Italian Civilization has been imagined in a rhetoric, as a symbol of strength, challenge, confrontation. Today trasforma il suo senso per esprimere l’italianità non come potenza, ma come creatività, con un’offerta culturale proiettata verso il futuro”.
Bah, speriamo bene.
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