Via dei Fori Imperiali

The Via dei Fori Imperiali (originally Via dell'Impero ) is an across the ancient archaeological site of the Imperial Fora specified under Benito Mussolini parade street between Piazza Venezia and the Colosseum in Rome. It corresponds to Mussolini's basic concept, which he uttered in the establishment of the Roman governor Filippo Cremonesi on December 31, 1925 In 50 years, Rome was to be " big, organized, and powerful," and the ancient monuments should, by all the ingredients of the " centuries of decadence " free, " in the necessary solitude to be gigantic. " from this point of view ( in the wake of Napoleon III. , and his collaborator Georges- Eugène Haussmann ), approved in between the Colosseum and Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini gave his speechifying, a view opened and the road axis, although the hills of Collina della Velia with the Renaissance garden of the Palazzo Rivaldi had to be cleared away -. On April 9, 1932 Mussolini opened on horseback during a meeting of Italian war veterans the new stretch of road.

These early as the Roman settlement plans of 1873 and 1883 planned road link will appear inconspicuous as in the plans of the 19th century, which provided a guide as viaduct in a level position. This contrasts with that in building ( 1924-32 ) in addition to numerous residential buildings, valuable ancient relics were simply destroyed - as the basis of Nero's colossal statue and the Meta Sudans, the residue of an ancient fountain. In the early 1980s attempted left town councils of Rome, the lock as a parade road fascist battalions known former Via dell'Impero or even break down.

On the initiative of the new mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino Via dei Fori Imperiali has been banned from the August 3, 2013 between Largo Corrado Ricci and the Coliseum for private cars. For public transport and taxis, the road on weekdays but remains open. Marino explained it to his destination the road within five years completely convert into a pedestrian zone.