Showing posts with label Fiume Aniene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiume Aniene. Show all posts

Sunday, January 21, 2018

NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE GARDEN CITY ANIENE

QUARTIERE CITTÀ GIARDINO ANIENE
1920 Gustavo Giovannoni (1873/1947), Quadrio Pirani (1878/1970) and Edmondo Del Bufalo (1883/1968)
It is connected with Via Nomentana through the TAZIO BRIDGE 1927 by Gustavo Giovannoni over the Aniene River. It was restored and partially reconstructed in the years 1938/39
“Particular attention was devoted to the design of the roads layouts, rich in curvilinear patterns with a configuration adhering to the altitude of the terrain and capable of proposing an environmental quality with a suburban character” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
PIAZZA SEMPIONE
1920/27 by Gustavo Giovannoni and Innocenzo Sabbatini (1891/1984)
CHIESA DEI Ss. ANGELI CUSTODI (Church of Saints Guardian Angels)
1922/24 by Gustavo Giovannoni
“At the center of a web of roads, inspired by models of the English garden suburb, Giovannoni designed in 1922 Church of the Guardian Angels in a traditional style. In plan and elevation, the building reproduced Baroque models with elongated plan. Again here it is shown the duality between the engineer, able to grapple with the most up to date techniques, and the student of Roman history tied to stylistic references of local inspiration” (G. Zucconi - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
PALAZZO PUBBLICO
1921/25 by Innocenzo Sabbatini
CASA DELLA GIOVENTÚ A MONTE SACRO (House of Youth on the Sacred Mountain)
1934/43 by Gaetano Minnucci (1896/1980)

Monday, January 1, 2018

NOMENTANO BRIDGE

PONTE NOMENTANO
Built in the Republican period so that the VIA NOMENTANA could pass the ANIENE RIVER
It was destroyed by the Goths of Totila in the year 549
Rebuilt by the Byzantine general Narses in 552
The current upper part dates back to that time, while the central arch is of the first century AD
It was fortified under Pope Adrian I (772/795)
Restored under Nicholas V Parentucelli (1447/51) and also under Innocent X Pamphilj (1644/55)
After being damaged in 1849 by the French army it was again restored
Now it is inserted in a PUBLIC PARK and the stretch of Via Nomentana to which it belongs has been closed to traffic