St. GREGORY VII

S. GREGORIO VII

Via Gregorio VII 6

1960/61 Mario Paniconi (1904/73) and Giulio Pediconi (1906/99)

FAÇADE

High Relief “Dream of Innocent III of the Counts of Segni (1198/1216)” and “Honorius III Savelli (1216/27) gives the rule to the Franciscans” by Luigi Venturini (1912/98)

On the portal “Gregory VII (1073/85)” by Antonio Biggi (1904/66)

On one side “The Parable of the feast” by Alfio Castelli (1917/92)

MAIN ALTAR

Hanging group in bronze “Crucifix surrounded by angels, Virgin Mary and St. Francis” by Pericle Fazzini (1913/87)

Around the altar “Ten panels” in fresco by the Florentine Luigi Montanarini (1906/98)

St. FELIX OF CANTALICE

S. FELICE DA CANTALICE

Piazza S. Felice da Cantalice 20 - Centocelle

1935 Mario Paniconi (1904/73) and Giulio Pediconi (1906/99)

St. Felix of Cantalice (about 1515/87) was a Capuchin friar who lived for forty years in Rome on alms and prayer, wandering around with a bag on his back

He was buried in the church of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception

IN THE FAÇADE

Painting “St. Felix of Cantalice” by Rodolfo Villani (1881/1941) nicknamed “Big Foot”

After the World Cup of 1982, which ended with the victory of the legendary Italian national team, the image was jokingly modified with the addition of a temporary football and boots

APSE

Huge fresco integrated with the technique of sgraffito “Madonna gives the Child to St. Felix” 1968/69 by Silvio Alessandri known as father Ugolino da Belluno (1919)

The surface is about 480 m² (5,200 square feet) and it was inaugurated on January 1, 1970 by Pope Paul VI Montini (1963/78) on the occasion of the World Day of Peace

St. ANTHONY FROM PADUA ON VIA MERULANA

S. ANTONIO DA PADOVA A VIA MERULANA

Via Merulana 124

1884/87 Luca Carimini (1830/90). Eclectic style

It was the first monumental sacred building to be built after 1870, the year Rome became capital of Italy

“The profession of stonemason is (...) the matrix of all the architectural work of Carimini: the genuine use of materials becomes the logical consequence of such an approach. The typological repertoire of the fifteenth century, especially investigated in minor architecture child and in details, which he had used for monuments and sepulchral chapels, gave him specific formal tools to be used in various situations, allowing wide margins of freedom of invention that he cleverly exploited in the general structure of the compositions. The fifteenth century is therefore read and absorbed in typical elements that lose any real reference and are composed in different ways with many effects. Shapes are stylized with obvious geometric corrections, offering a new perspective on the originality of the volumetric composition” (Giorgio Ciucci - Biographical Dictionary of Italian Treccani)

Columns of granite from Baveno, women's gallery and ten altars with paintings from the nineteenth century last results of the Nazarene and purist painting style

MAIN ALTAR

Large fresco “Apotheosis of the Franciscan Order” by Father Bonaventura Loffredo from Alghero in Sardinia

Bas-relief “Eucharist” by Luca Carimini

5^th CHAPEL ON THE LEFT

Triptych “St. Francis with Sts. Peter of Alcantara and Paschal Baylon” by Franz von Rhoden (1817/1923) one of the last Nazarene painters

4^th CHAPEL ON THE LEFT

“Japanese Martyrs” by Cesare Mariani (1826/1901)

AUDITORIUM for the UNIVERSITY OF FRIARS MINOR

1947/56 Mario Paniconi (1904/73) and Giulio Pediconi (1906/99)

INA-CASA VALCO St. PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD

QUARTIERE INA-CASA VALCO S.PAOLO

Via Ostiense/Via Valco S. Paolo/Via Guglielmo Marconi

1949/52 urban project: Mario De Renzi (1897/1967) and Saverio Muratori (1910/73). 440 lodgings

Projects of the buildings: Saverio Muratori, Mario De Renzi, Mario Paniconi (1904/73), Giulio Pediconi (1906/99) and Fernando Puccioni

TORRI STELLARI (star-shaped towers) by Mario De Renzi

The area consists of almost 5 hectares (12.3 acres) with 440 lodgings for about 3,000 inhabitants and it was the first of the Piani-Casa (plans for homes) designed to give a home to the new Roman working class

The original town plan was not completed

“In the Valco San Paolo neighborhood it is clear how both the whole and the parts have a clear stylistic unity through careful control of the ways of dealing with the different types of buildings, but there is also space for a series of small service facilities for the neighborhood and for elements of urban design” (Mario Carotti - www.urbanistica.unipr.it)

“The limitation of this approach, very common in the interventions made ​​in those years, is to consider the neighborhood as a closed element, and then to solve within itself the aspects of architectural and urban planning. The balance of these values gets in fact to be completely changed when the neighborhood, often built in the outer fringe of the urban expansion, is absorbed by the town. The Valco S. Paolo is in fact today barely recognizable near the crammed constructions of Viale Marconi and the relationships between the elements, which were the basis of the project, appears to be irretrievably altered” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)

PALACE OF IMI AND OF THE ITALIAN EXCHANGE INSTITUTE

PALAZZO DELL'IMI E DELL'ISTITUTO ITALIANO CAMBI

Via Quattro Fontane 121

1953/56 Mario Paniconi (1904/73) and Giulio Pediconi (1906/99) in collaboration with the Studio Passarelli

The IMI was the ISTITUTO MOBILIARE ITALIANO (Italian Chattels Institute) founded in 1931

In 1998 it merged with the ISTITUTO SAN PAOLO and became SANPAOLO IMI

“One of the first major competitions in Rome after the war. The project has two aspects. The front on Via Quattro Fontane, between S. Carlino by Borromini and an austere convent building, conveys the relationship between past, existing buildings, the environment, with topical thoughtful novelties” (Official Website Studio Passarelli - www.studiopassarelli.it)

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

INPS AND INA PALACES

PALAZZI DELL'INPS E DELL'INA

Piazzale delle Nazioni Unite

1940 Giovanni Muzio (1893/1982), Mario Paniconi (1904/73) and Giulio Pediconi (1906/99) inspired by the Trajan markets, built using reinforced concrete and covered in Carrara marble

Leaving Rome the INA PALACE is on the left while the INPS PALACE is on the right

The COURTYARD of the INA Palace is covered with cipolin marble with thirty-six pillars made out of Baveno marble

Reliefs sculpted in 1941:

On the short façades of the INA Palace “The conquest of the seas” Oddo Aliventi (1898/1975) and “The Fascist Empire” by Quirino Ruggeri (1883/1955)

On the short façades of the INPS Palace “The maritime republics” Mirko (Mirko Basaldella) (1910/69) and “Rome against Carthage” Giuseppe Mazzullo (1913/88)