Stefano Vigolo photographs and documents Italian architecture of the interwar decades — the years known in Italy as the Ventennio — from Rationalism and Art Déco to the buildings that fall between the guidebooks. He is a researcher of the period.
Contributions: 561 articles · 145 heritage places · 687 events · 12 itineraries · 249 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Battista «Pinin» Farina (Cortanze, 2 November 1893 – Lausanne, 3 April 1966), founder in 1930 of the coachbuilding firm that carries his name, died at seventy-two. In 1961 the surname of the family and of the company…
Battista Farina, known as «Pinin» (Cortanze, 2 November 1893 – Lausanne, 3 April 1966), was a coachbuilder and designer. In 1930 he founded Carrozzeria Pinin Farina in Turin, which made line and aerodynamics a…
Vittorio Jano (San Giorgio Canavese, 22 April 1891 – Turin, 13 March 1965), designer of the Alfa Romeo P2 and P3 and later an engineer at Lancia and Ferrari, died in Turin. He is counted among the fathers of the Italian…
Vittorio Jano (San Giorgio Canavese, 22 April 1891 – Turin, 13 March 1965) designed engines and racing cars. He joined Fiat in 1911 and from 1923 was chief designer at Alfa Romeo, for which he drew the P2 (1924) and the…
Vincenzo Lancia (Fobello, 24 August 1881 – Turin, 15 February 1937) died in Turin at fifty-five. The founder of Lancia in 1906, he had tied his name to the load-bearing body and the independent front suspension of the…
Vincenzo Lancia (Fobello, 24 August 1881 – Turin, 15 February 1937), a Fiat test driver and racing driver, founded in 1906 in Turin the car company that carries his name. His best known technical contribution is the…
The casa del fascio was the local headquarters of the Fascist party, and after 1945 the whole network lost its purpose overnight. Five survivors — Como, Rubano, Predappio, Bolzano, Tirana — show what the type was and what the republic did with it.
A thematic chain, not a day trip: five surviving case del fascio across Italy and Albania, each with a different
Forlì was the regime’s showcase city; Predappio, a planned model town. Five stops link them: Bazzani’s post office, Valle’s Casa del Balilla and cadet academy, and the post office and abandoned Casa del Fascio of Predappio Nuova. A driving route with map and GPX.
Five stops across Forlì and Predappio, the two Romagna towns the regime rebuilt as its showcase: Bazzani’s post office on
