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Street Roma

In almost all the Italian municipalities there is a way to Rome will of Benito Mussolini. In August 1931 the mayor, who then administered municipalities, received a circular from the governors to call on the anniversary of the March on Rome (year X) is not secondary to name a street in Rome. ... "Order of the Head of Government, all towns have called, with the start of the tenth, a street not secondary to the name of Rome 1st August 1931 ..."


"The way Rome was packed with people that it was not clear where he went, he did in that hour sultry as the sun, hidden behind piles of clouds, lit up with yellow, red, orange, green, blue. " (Giuseppe Dessi, a country of shadows, 1972) Via Roma is one of Renting streets of Cagliari. The section facing the harbor, with its elegant buildings with arcades, where there are numerous cafes and shops, is considered one of the salons of the city. Over this stretch, between the corner with Viale Regina Margherita (east) and the angle at the Largo Carlo Felice (west) and is the southern boundary of the Marina District, Via Roma in the quarter due west Stampace via Matteotti square, overlooked by the town hall and railway station, until you cross the street Trieste. The Via Roma is the main artery of the old town of Enna. It stretches along several kilometers through the oldest neighborhoods of the provincial capital's tallest Italy, and his hips facing significant buildings from various eras and styles, from Baroque to neoclassical via Spanish-Bourbon, Gothic and twentieth century. Via Roma, as the innervation road most of Enna, since it enables cross from the western to the eastern touching all the hot spots of the city is the heart of urban life, and follows an erratic path in the direction that is in the slope. Along the way, mostly narrow and feature - in fact exists the way - there are numerous places, among which 11 are the most important. They include the very central Belvedere Enna, Piazza Matteotti, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Piazza Piazza Umberto I and VI in December, the heart Navel of Sicily, in addition to other major centers for churches or artistic buildings that we envisage. The beginning of the artery is marked by the continuation of Via Libertà, in the modern part of Enna High, known as the Mount, you notice some buildings of a certain patrician splendor as well as several churches, including two valuable baroque Piazza Neglia, and a large tower on the same square. Piazza Matteotti bruschissimo marks a reversed direction, marking a sharp bend to the southeast, with one of the most magnificent of Via Roma: a few hundred yards start here five of the most beautiful squares of Enna. Besides the beautiful Gothic tower with mullioned of San Giovanni and Piazza Garibaldi, frame buildings with fascist architecture of politics and finance, Via Roma widens and becomes increasingly older, up to the Cathedral of Enna, beyond which there ' is a considerable shrinking up to the Castle of Lombardy, where Via Roma gives way to two lanes. Today Via Roma is a road with nineteenth century buildings, created by a team of four architects after gutting: Joseph Boccini Louis Buonamici, the Long Torquato and Giuseppe Rossi. Time was extended to all new road name by the Archbishopric to come then dedicated to the revolutionary Spanish Francisco Ferrer in 1909, which was shot on Oct. 3 that year. In 1911 the administration of Mayor Thomas Corsini dedicated by the Italian capital in the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. The road today has a purely commercial vocation, with many shops that surround it. Among the buildings that rise along the way worth mentioning the Savoy Hotel, ecelettica magnificent building, the historic Caffè Gilli and commercial space Luisa Via Roma, designed in the first half of the '80s by the architect Claudio Nardi. Via Roma is the consulate of San Marino. Via Roma is a major thoroughfare of the historic town of Marino, near Rome in the Castelli Romani. Via Roma actually took that name only in accordance with the provision Benito Mussolini in 1931 which required the designation of a "road not secondary to the name of Rome: originally it was called New Road. The realization of the Strada Nuova was conceived in a broader urban redevelopment plan brought forward by Marino's Column, lords of the place during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. The present Via Roma, whose implementation can be traced back to the years around 1530, is perhaps the highlight of this project was conceived as a long straight directed to Rome, through the gardens to the stairway giungesse Column monumental Palazzo Colonna. In the construction of new roads within the medieval city walls, the old neighborhood was gutted high-Medieval Castles of the district, separating it from another area of medieval urbanization, the district Coste. Via Toledo is one of the main streets of Naples and is a mile long. The route begins and ends at Piazza Dante Piazza Trieste e Trento, the sequence of the road branching off other important thoroughfares, squares, churches and palaces. The road is one of the stages of the Neapolitan shopping and cultural life since the beginning of the twentieth century. Was ordered by the viceroy Pedro Alvarez de Toledo in 1536 and designed by registered architects Ferdinand Manlio and John Benincasa. Over the centuries, his reputation has been enhanced through the travels of the Grand Tour and some quotes in the Neapolitan songs. In the mid-twentieth century, the area to the right of way has been destroyed by demolition for the "rehabilitation" of the District of Guantai and the subsequent construction (instead of the old buildings) of buildings of volume exception to the road structure, well representative of speculation took place during the administration Laurin. In addition, from 1870 to the 80s of last century, was renamed in honor of the Via Roma neocapitalism the Kingdom of Italy. Recently, in addition to regain its original name, the excavations were started for Naples metro and the road was made in part pedestrian. Via Roma is one of the main streets of downtown Turin. It combines the historic central Piazza Castello Porta Nuova train station and includes along its path piazza CLN and the famous Piazza San Carlo, ending in Piazza Carlo Felice.

 


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