The "Re-building" Rome of Benito Mussolini | zokster: "By rave - Posted on November 18th, 2010
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1931, Piazza Venezia
This was to be the seat of a reborn Italian empire, harking back to the classical period. To this end, Mussolini launched excavations of the nearby forums of Trajan, Caesar and Nerva and laid the wide, ramrod-straight Via dei Fori Imperiali. Much lamented by Rome aficionados, the boulevard cut the forum area in half and left the ruins below ground level. Hundreds of housing units were demolished, displacing about 2,000 people.
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