INA CASA MAMMOLO BRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD

QUARTIERE INA-CASA PONTEMAMMOLO

Via Tiburtina km 9,2, Via Lanciano, Via Campotosto

1959/62 Giuseppe Vaccaro (1896/1970) designed the SOUTHERN AREA and Luigi Vagnetti (1915/80) the NORTH WEST AREA

It is situated between the Via Tiburtina and the Aniene River and it is inhabited by about 3000 people in 562 apartments

“It is distinguished by the peculiarity of the typological and architectural solutions adopted and the richness of the internal distribution of individual blocks. It constitutes a reference model for settlements with low population density” (Giorgio Muratore)

“He worked often in official commissions, and participated in the monumentality of the time by searching sometimes a futuristic interpretation, with elements in the language of Rationalism (Rome, Ministry of Corporations, today of Industry, Via Veneto, 1928/31, with Marcello Piacentini, Naples, Palazzo delle Poste, 1929/35, with Gino Franzi). His executive accuracy and the use of rationalist terms within a symmetrical architectural system (...) had considerable influence on Italian architecture” (Enciclopedia Treccani)

PALACE OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION

PALAZZO DEL MINISTERO DELLE COMUNICAZIONI

Viale Europa 201

1976 Mario Paniconi (1904/73), Giulio Pediconi (1906/99) and Luigi Vagnetti (1915/80) with the assistance of Giorgio Busio, Pietro Ferri and Leonardo Foderà

At Viale Europa 243 there is the

Museo Storico delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni

Historical Museum of Post and Telecommunications

It was moved here from the Roma Prati Post Office in 1977 and it opened only in 1982

It occupies an area of about 3,500 m² (0.86 acres)

Objects from the period of the Italian states before the unification until the establishment of the Republic

It is unique in its kind in Italy and one of the most important in the world. It can be visited by appointment only

SOME OF THE ITEMS IN THE COLLECTION:

Copy of a groma instrument used in ancient Rome to measure and demarcate land

Phone of 1876 of the Bell Company

Automatic electronic computer ELEA 9003 dating to 1959 and designed by Enrico Fermi

The first automatic switchboard with ten lines of 1886 by G.B. Marzi

Encryption machine Enigma used by the British to decipher the messages of the Nazis during World War II. It is one of the only three pieces of its kind existing in the world

Reconstruction with original pieces of the radiotelegraphic cabin of the ship Elettra designed by Guglielmo Marconi

Collection of letterboxes. The oldest is from 1633

Incredible collection of about 950,000 historical stamps from all over the world