Foro Italico

The Foro Italico, formerly Foro Mussolini, is a monumental, 1928-1938 erected sports facility complex in Rome, the first of the paramilitary, focused on physical training youth organization of the fascist regime, the Opera Nazionale Balilla served. An application for the Olympic Summer Games in 1940 by fascist Italy by Mussolini was planned. The Summer Games were finally awarded to Japan. After the Second World War, the Foro Italico was the site of many sports events, such as the 1960 Summer Olympics, the football World Cup in 1990 and the World Swimming Championships in 2009.

Location and building traditions

The at the foot of Monte Mario, the, a native of the same era Palazzo della Farnesina (then Palazzo del Littorio ) neighboring complex also contains the Olympic Stadium Rome, the tree- than-life "heroic" figures of athletes Stadio dei Marmi ( Marble Stadium ), a swimming stadium and tennis courts, Mussolini obelisk, the Piazzale dell ' Impero measured with the marble sphere fountain with 3 feet in diameter stone globe. The direct access route to the Olympic Stadium over the Tiber is produced across the stone bridge Ponte Duca d' Aosta during the two-lane Verkehrswegung passes along the Tiber to the system. On one axis, the stadium is the bridge over the Tiber, the Mussolini obelisk and fountain of the spheres. The spheres fountain, the globe is in the middle is rounded off with large-scale mosaics and paved up to the obelisk with numerous mosaics.

The Foro Italico offers a typical and well-preserved example of the exploitation of sport for the purposes of the ideology of fascism and his master race.

The Italian Fascists idealized Roman traditions and continued the ancient architecture. Throughout Italy the style was adapted by the construction of monumental buildings such as forums, triumphal arches and monumental statues. The Forum Mussolini, which lies on the banks of the Tiber, and has been newly created, formed the most direct expression of these ideas. In other existing buildings in Italy partly fascist symbols were attached; in Mussolini's Forum has been sustained by the creation of new sports arenas, which are lined by monumental sculptures in Carrara marble, directly on classical models of building and Mussolini obelisk is at the center of this forum. In addition to the monumental statues large colored mosaics figurative representations of nature and animals are placed on walls and floors. In the mosaic floors are to this day the inscriptions dVce ( "leader" ), dVce A NOI ( "Our Duce " ), Molti NEMICI Molto ONORE ( " Many enemies, much honor " ) and dVce LA NOSTRA giovinezza A VOI DEDICHIAMO ( " Duce, we give you our youth " ) inserted.

Architectural History

The Foro Italico was designed by Enrico Del Debbio and Luigi Moretti. The expansion with Carrara marble was closely linked to high feast days of the fascist regime. On November 4, 1932 after the conclusion of the celebrations for the tenth anniversary of the March on Rome of Mussolini inaugurated the first group of buildings: the Palazzo dell'Accademia Fascista, Mussolini obelisk and the Stadio dei Marmi. On 9 May 1937 the first anniversary of the founding of the fascist empire Mussolini inaugurated the Palazzo delle Terme, the Piazzale dell ' Impero, the Casa delle Armi and the Olympic stadium. On December 15, 1938, the sports facility complex was officially completed. About the same time began the construction of the adjacent Palazzo del Littorio, seat of the Fascist party headquarters and today the Foreign Ministry.

The 220 ​​m long and 30 m wide Ponte Duca d' Aosta over the Tiber river stone the architect Vincenzo Fasolo was completed in 1939-1942, opening up direct access to the forum. On the pylons of the bridge are semi-plastic reliefs of military conflicts of the 20th century.

Sporting events

  • Tennis ATP Rome Masters since 1934.
  • Olympic Games 1960
  • European Football Championship 1968
  • European Athletics Championships 1974
  • European Football Championship 1980
  • European Swimming Championships 1983
  • World Athletics Championships 1987
  • Football World Cup 1990
  • World Swimming Championships 1994
  • World Swimming Championships 2009
Forum (Roman) Dimension stone Pylon (architecture) 1974 European Athletics Championships 1987 World Championships in Athletics
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