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Roma EUR by night

            Chiesa dei santi Pietro e Paolo - Roma EUR, Italy
2011

EUR (originally called E42) is a residential and business district in Rome, Italy. The area was originally planned as the site for the 1942 world's fair which Benito Mussolini planned to open in 1942 to celebrate twenty years of Fascism; the letters standing for Esposizione Universale Roma. In urban planning terms, EUR was designed to direct the expansion of the city towards the south-west, connecting it to the sea. The planned exhibition never took place due to World War II.
After a period of controversy over its architectural and urban planning principles, the project to design EUR was commissioned from the leaders of both of the rival factions in Italian architecture: Marcello Piacentini for the "reactionaries" and Giuseppe Pagano for the "progressives". Each of them brought in their own preferred architects to design individual buildings within the district. EUR offers a large-scale image of how urban Italy might have looked, if the Fascist regime had not fallen; wide axially planned streets and austere buildings of either stile Littorio, inspired by ancient Roman architecture, or Rationalism, modern architecture but built using traditional limestone, tuff and marble.
The most representative building of the "Fascist" style at EUR is the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana (1938-1943), an iconic project which has since become known as the "Colosseo Quadrato" (Square Colosseum).
After the war, the Roman authorities found that at EUR they already had the beginnings of an out-of-town business district that other capitals did not begin planning until decades later (London Docklands and La Défense in Paris).
During the 1950s and 1960s the unfinished Fascist-era buildings were completed, and other new buildings were constructed in contemporary styles for use as offices and government ministries, set in large gardens and parks. Many Italians consider EUR synonymous with wealthy living and fast money, but many expatriates from North America choose to live there[citation needed] because it is conveniently close to the old city but with newer buildings and infrastructure, is close to the main international airport, and is easily accessible by car. It is also served by Line B of the Rome Metro and Roma-Lido.
Other attractions at EUR include the Museum of Roman Civilization, the Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography, the sports arena PalaEUR (now PalaLottomatica), designed by Pier Luigi Nervi and Marcello Piacentini for the 1960 Summer Olympics and the LunEur Luna Park (open between 1953 and 2008).
The Fascist architecture of EUR was prominently featured in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1962 film L'Eclisse. The location was also used as the headquarters of Mayflower Industries in the 1991 movie Hudson Hawk and served as a backdrop for scenes from the 1999 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.


L'EUR (anche noto come Eur o E.U.R., in origine acronimo di Esposizione Universale di Roma) è un complesso urbanistico e architettonico di Roma, identificato per antonomasia con il trentaduesimo quartiere di Roma, oggi denominato quartiere Europa. Il termine è oggi utilizzato anche per identificare la più estesa zona urbanistica 12a del Municipio XII, e più in generale per designare l'intero municipio.
Progettato negli anni trenta del Novecento in previsione di una Esposizione Universale mai svoltasi, il complesso ospita alcuni esempi di architettura razionalista, che convivono con edifici moderni edificati nei decenni successivi. Gran parte del quartiere è di proprietà di EUR S.p.A. (già Ente EUR), partecipata dal Ministero dell'Economia per il 90% e dal Comune di Roma per il 10%.

source: Wikipedia


   

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Taken on: February 27, 2011

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