Monday, December 25, 2017

BRIDGE OF THE ITALIAN FORUM

PONTE DEL FORO ITALICO
1936/39 Vincenzo Fasolo (1885/1969)
Also known as PONTE DUCA D’AOSTA (Aosta Duke Bridge), built in reinforced concrete
Fasolo won the competition in 1935 in which competed eighteen projects of very important architects including Enrico Del Debbio, Pietro Aschieri, Mario Ridolfi, Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo and Giuseppe Vaccaro
On the pillars of both ends “Reliefs with scenes of the First World War” by Vico Consorti (1902/79), sculptor also of the reliefs of the Holy Door in the Basilica of St. Peter, Ercole Drei (1886/1973), Domenico Ponzi (1891/?) and Oddo Valenti

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