Unknown Parts of Rome Worth Seeing When Coming from Rome Airports

The internet revolution allows people today to havecomplex into an urban district at the edge of an
more informations and to plan their trip to Rome and toexpanding Rome. This project was realized in
Italy in a proper way in order to see more monumentssubsequent 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 atlayout plan of EUR follows the basic principle of
Fiumicino Rome airport, during your transfer to theancient city planning with a main axis avenue
hotel you can see the modern district of Rome calledsymmetrically surrounded by significant buildings. At the
E.U.R. The acronym,which stands for Esposizioneeach end of main axis or cross axis, a permanent
Universale di Roma, has become the name of abuilding was designed to emphasize, and terminate the
peripheral suburb of Rome interesting for its manyaxis, as was customary in Renaissance cities. Palazzo
examples of fascist architecture. Mussolini as primedei Ricevimenti dei Congressi, Palazzo della Civilta del
minister of Italy between the two world wars startedLavoro, and SS. Pietro e Paolo are the three important
to work on this huge complex of office buildings andbuildings for the main axis and cross axis, and were
apartment blocks in 1939. It was supposed to host abuilt during the same period. The most famous
big exhibition (Esposizione Universale di Roma) in 1942museum to see in this district that is close to the
but the war intervened. Olympic Games were heldairports of Rome is the Museum of the Roman
here in 1960 and now the place is a bit like La DefenseCivilization that contains the scale reproduction of the
in Paris, home to trade shows and miscellaneousmain monuments of ancient Rome,like the famous
companies. There were two basic phases in EUR'scast of the Colosseum, and its breathtaking rooms are
development. The first phase, from January 1937, wasworth 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 thedevelopment of the roman civilization. When
entire exhibition complex. During this phase briefs forconsidering EUR in the context of architectural history,
the permanent buildings were also announced. EURit can be understood as a fine example of Italian
never took place because of World War II. Work thatrationalism or functionalism. It also tried an eclectic
had started on the permanent buildings was broken offapproach that combined classical architectural
in1942, and completely abandoned a year later. Thevocabulary and the new modern design principle, with
second phase of EUR's development occured aftera result that the buildings show the lack of creative
the war from 1951 to 1960. In 1955, Calza Biniand artistic sense of design.
developed a concept for transforming the exhibition