Rome

168 ROME SILENT BEAUTY CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF A POLICY TO TEAR DOWN THE CITY’S ANCIENT NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WAS IMPLEMENTED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY, FROM THE DAYS OF THE BRECCIA DI PORTA PIA (STORMINGOF PORTA PIA) IN 1871, AND THE PROCLAMATION OF ROME AS THE ITALIAN CAPITAL. THE NEW SECULAR AND ANTI-CLERICAL GOVERNMENT BELIEVED THAT IT NEEDED TO RECLAIM THE ANCIENT CITY, WHICHWAS DEEMED TO BE UNHEALTHY, BY DEMOLISHING STREETS AND SMALL SQUARES, AS WELL AS CHURCHES AND BUILDINGS EVENWHEN THESEWERE OF NOTABLE HISTORICAL INTEREST. HENCE, A THOROUGHFARE WAS BUILT. BASEDON THE MODEL OF THE PARISIAN BOULEVARDS, IT RATIONALIZED THE SPACES AND AS A RESULT THE LIVES OF THE CITIZENS. OPENED UP ALONG THE ROUTEWAS PIAZZA CAMPODE’ FIORI, WHICHWAS CHOSEN TOHOST THE BRONZE STATUE OF THE MARTYR OF THE INQUISITION GIORDANO BRUNO. MADE BY ETTORE FERRARI, THEWORK CAUSED GREAT FRICTION BETWEEN THE PAPACY AND THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION.

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