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Ostia, Tourism, Sea and Fun

The birth of the neighborhood is related to fascism which transformed the beach of Rome, connected by rail, then complemented in 1927 by one of the first Italian highways, the Via del Mare, while the first plans were drawn up for the Rome-Fiumicino . In 1933 he officially took the name of "Lido di Roma."


Following the new urban plan of Rome, was created from scratch a new neighborhood on the south side of town (EUR) and a road was designed (dedicated to Christopher Columbus), at the time called the "Imperial Way" to connect Rome with the sea. The project was approved in 1938, but the road was opened to traffic only after the war, in 1949. The town was reorganized in the style of so-called "Fascist Architecture" (reminiscent of colonial styles, Mediterranean and rationalist) and turned into a strip along the sea, with small cottages used as second homes for wealthy Romans and a band for the workers: at that time were created in Rome around the suburbs and villages for the displaced, because demolition, the historic districts such as "Acilia" before township Fascist Rome is located halfway from the coast, it was stated objective of the scheme to build the "Third Rome", which was to be extended until the beginning of the Tyrrhenian Sea. However, the renewal was not fascist long enjoyed by the Romans, because of the imminence of the Second World War began, when most work was still in its infancy, it is only in 1960 that expands Ostia, also developed in the western part with some tenement buildings near the mouth of the Tiber, and leading to the typical appearance of a populous district of Rome and started to be used as a holiday destination but also as a district originally inhabited by fishermen and also workers really becoming an important fraction of city that still forms a part. In the seventies and eighties the booming metropolis leads to occupation of land that separated the beach from the town of Rome with the main settlements of single-family houses that are to alleviate the heavy insulation of those villages or hamlets throughout the area for some time and not about the same Host that acquires undoubted benefits. Famous is the competition for the design of a batch of villas, which included leading architects of the time, including Adalberto Libera. Ostia has many examples of modern residential architecture and public including the post of Mazzoni. Ostia today has become a tourist destination plus all respect and after the construction of a new tourist dock for boats by individuals called "the port of Rome," is to be returned as it was originally the "Sea Rome's "full, and one of the most populous of the capital. To the south of Ostia extend numerous beaches protected by dunes and Mediterranean flora. Occasions in the history of separation from Rome and then to become an independent municipality, as the nearby airport, have been proposed to the residents with two referendums, the first in 1989 where they won the "NO" and the second in 1999 where a quorum is not reached. In 2008 he established a project called "Pact for Ostia and XIII Municipio" that provides greater administrative autonomy to Ostia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 


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