| The internet revolution allows people today to have | | | | complex into an urban district at the edge of an |
| more informations and to plan their trip to Rome and to | | | | expanding Rome. This project was realized in |
| Italy in a proper way in order to see more monuments | | | | subsequent years and concluded with the new building |
| and archaeological sights in a shorter amount of time. | | | | of important sport facilities for the 1960 Olympics. The |
| To make an example, when you are just landed at | | | | layout plan of EUR follows the basic principle of |
| Fiumicino Rome airport, during your transfer to the | | | | ancient city planning with a main axis avenue |
| hotel you can see the modern district of Rome called | | | | symmetrically surrounded by significant buildings. At the |
| E.U.R. The acronym,which stands for Esposizione | | | | each end of main axis or cross axis, a permanent |
| Universale di Roma, has become the name of a | | | | building was designed to emphasize, and terminate the |
| peripheral suburb of Rome interesting for its many | | | | axis, as was customary in Renaissance cities. Palazzo |
| examples of fascist architecture. Mussolini as prime | | | | dei Ricevimenti dei Congressi, Palazzo della Civilta del |
| minister of Italy between the two world wars started | | | | Lavoro, and SS. Pietro e Paolo are the three important |
| to work on this huge complex of office buildings and | | | | buildings for the main axis and cross axis, and were |
| apartment blocks in 1939. It was supposed to host a | | | | built during the same period. The most famous |
| big exhibition (Esposizione Universale di Roma) in 1942 | | | | museum to see in this district that is close to the |
| but the war intervened. Olympic Games were held | | | | airports of Rome is the Museum of the Roman |
| here in 1960 and now the place is a bit like La Defense | | | | Civilization that contains the scale reproduction of the |
| in Paris, home to trade shows and miscellaneous | | | | main monuments of ancient Rome,like the famous |
| companies. There were two basic phases in EUR's | | | | cast of the Colosseum, and its breathtaking rooms are |
| development. The first phase, from January 1937, was | | | | worth seeing because people coming to Rome can |
| designed by five Italian architects (Pagano, Piacentini, | | | | have a good historical background of the progress and |
| Piccinato, Rossi and Vietti) with a master plan for the | | | | development of the roman civilization. When |
| entire exhibition complex. During this phase briefs for | | | | considering EUR in the context of architectural history, |
| the permanent buildings were also announced. EUR | | | | it can be understood as a fine example of Italian |
| never took place because of World War II. Work that | | | | rationalism or functionalism. It also tried an eclectic |
| had started on the permanent buildings was broken off | | | | approach that combined classical architectural |
| in1942, and completely abandoned a year later. The | | | | vocabulary and the new modern design principle, with |
| second phase of EUR's development occured after | | | | a result that the buildings show the lack of creative |
| the war from 1951 to 1960. In 1955, Calza Bini | | | | and artistic sense of design. |
| developed a concept for transforming the exhibition | | | | |