Saturday, December 31, 2016

FAO PALACE

PALAZZO DELLA FAO
1938 Vittorio Cafiero (1901/81) e Mario Ridolfi (1904/84) con Ettore Rossi (1894/1968), Giulio Rinaldi, Wolfgang Frankl (1907/94), Alberto Legnani e Armando Sabatini
Designed as the Ministry of Italian Africa but completed and extended for the new use only in the years 1950/52 by Vittorio Cafiero himself
Headquarters of the FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
The building is leased to the UN by the Italian government for the symbolic price of $ 1 per year
Near Piazza di Porta Capena, in front of the building, in 1937 the stele of Axum was placed, an obelisk of the fourth century AD moved here from Ethiopia by the order office Mussolini. In 2005 the obelisk was removed from the square and returned to the Government of Ethiopia

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