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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