Showing posts with label Piazza Cavour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piazza Cavour. Show all posts

Sunday, January 19, 2020

ADRIANO THEATER

TEATRO ADRIANO
Piazza Cavour 22

1898 Luigi Rolland (about 1898/1914), Belgian architect, father of Luigi Moretti

He used reinforced concrete, a new technique at the time
The theater was mainly used for opera

From 1936 to 1950 were held here the concerts of the Academy of St. Cecilia and later it was transformed into a double movie theater

In 1965 here played the Beatles
In 1999 it was transformed into a MULTIPLEX CINEMA

Sunday, March 23, 2014

MONUMENT TO CAMILLO BENSO COUNT OF CAVOUR

MONUMENTO A CAMILLO BENSO CONTE DI CAVOUR
1885/95 Stefano Galletti (1832/1905) pupil of Pietro Tenerani
Platform of granite, base of bardiglio marble and bronze statues
In the base there are four bronze groups: west side "Thought", east side "Action", north side "Force" with a lion protecting the plebiscitary voting polls and south side "Italy sitting next to Rome"
Reliefs on two sides of the pedestal to the east, behind the Action, "Weapons of the House of Savoy from different periods", in the west, behind the Thought, "Symbols of science, technology, geographical discoveries, political and philosophical thought"

Thursday, November 21, 2013

WALDESIAN CHURCH

CHIESA VALDESE
1911/14 Guido Bonci and Emanuele Rutelli in Byzantine-Ottonian style
Decorations and windows by Paolo Paschetto (1885/1963)
In the back of the church in Via Cossa 42 there is the WALDESIAN FACULTY OF TEOLOGY 1907/09 by Giulio Magni (1859/1930). Library with about 71,0000 volumes
CHIESA VALDESE
1883 Benedetto Andolfi (active 1874/83)
The Waldensian Church is present in Italy from the thirteenth century and has about 25,000 faithful