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

Saturday, April 8, 2017

GIORGIOLI PALACE

PALAZZO GIORGIOLI
1888 Carlo Busiri Vici (1856/1925) son of Andrea Busiri Vici
He rebelled to the eclecticism typical and prevailing in the period of Humbert I to combine modern construction needs with the art of the past

GIOLITTI PALACE

PALAZZO GIOLITTI
1886/88 Cesare Janz (known to be active in the years 1886/89) e Gregorio Moretti
So named because here lived Giovanni Giolitti (1842/1928) five times President of the Council of Ministers for a total of eleven years
The long period between 1892 and 1921 during which he dominated the Italian political scene is described by historians as the Giolitti era

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

HOTEL MEDITERRANEO

HOTEL MEDITERRANEO
1936/40 Mario Loreti
Higher than 50 m (164 feet) with ten floors and 251 rooms
It is one of the tallest buildings in the historical center of Rome
It is considered a fine example of Roman Art Deco which, among mosaics and busts of Roman emperors, creates a retro and decadent yet fascinating ambience