The seaside headquarters of the Lega Navale Italiana section at Lido di Ostia, on the Lungomare Caio Duilio, founded in 1938 and housed in a rationalist building that overlooks the Tyrrhenian coast.
At a glance
The building stands on the seafront at Lido di Ostia, within the municipality of Roma. It is the base of the Ostia section of the Lega Navale Italiana, an association whose central committee was formed in 1897 at La Spezia. The section’s own website describes the headquarters as the home of Ostia’s sailors since 1938.
Key facts
- Where: Lungomare Caio Duilio 36, Lido di Ostia, Roma
- What: Headquarters of the institution
- When: 1938
- GPS: 41.7195, 12.3021 · Open in Google Maps
History
The Lega Navale Italiana traces its origins to 2 June 1897, when its central committee was constituted at La Spezia. The Ostia section was founded in 1938, a date that appears on its own website. The Biblioteca Elsa Morante, writing about the modern architecture of Ostia’s bathing establishments, states that the building was completed in 1937 to a rationalist design by the engineer Corrado Giovannetti, strongly supported by Achille Starace, secretary of the National Fascist Party and extraordinary commissioner of the Lega Navale Italiana.
What you see
The photograph shows a white, two-storey building with a tower on its seaward side. A blue band runs around the top of the tower, and the words LEGA NAVALE ITALIANA are written across the street-facing facade. The building is set back slightly from the road, with several cars parked in front of it. A second photograph, taken from the side, shows a flag on the tower, a yellow sign near the entrance and a canopy over the door. The building’s principal level is reached by a staircase from the Lungomare, and the sea-facing elevation has a curved glassed end that looks towards the water.
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Nearby
- Lido di Ostia — the seaside district where the Lega Navale headquarters stands
- Porta Marina thermal baths – Ostia Antica excavations – Roman Domus — ancient Roman remains a short distance inland
Gallery
Sources
- Lega Navale Ostia, Home – Lega Navale Ostia: the section’s own site gives the address, the founding year and the range of activities
- Biblioteche di Roma, Occhio al territorio: architettura moderna ad Ostia, gli stabilimenti balneari (2): description of the building’s rationalist design, its engineer and the context of its construction
- Lega Navale Italiana – Sezione di Trieste, Storia – Lega Navale Italiana sezione di Trieste: the founding date of the central committee of the Lega Navale Italiana in 1897
- Stefano Vigolo, photographs and notes to the editorial staff (2026): identification of the subject. Not a published source
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